Nezih Guner

TL;DR: In this article, a simple growth model with an endogenous size distribution of production units was developed to systematically study policies of this class and found that these effects are potentially large: policies that reduce the average size of establishments by 20% lead to reductions in output and output per establishment up to 8.1% and 25.6% respectively, as well as large increases in the number of establishments.

TL;DR: In this article, the United States Census Bureau suggests that there has been a rise in assortative mating, which contributes to household income inequality, and the high level of married female labor-force participation in 2005 is important for this.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the interactions between household formation, inequality, and per capita income and show that the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in skills) is an increasing function of the skill premium.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a life-cycle setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply.

TL;DR: This paper explored the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women and developed an equilibrium search model of marriage, divorce, and investment in children that allows for differential timing of fertility.