Chakrabortya, IndraneelHolter, HansStepanchuk, Serhiy2015-05-112015-05-112015-05-11201510.1016/j.jmoneco.2015.01.001https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/113793WOS:000355039300001Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro-data from the United States and 17 European countries, we document that women are typically the largest contributors to the cross-country differences in work hours. We also show that there is a negative relation between taxes and annual hours worked, driven by men, and a positive relation between divorce rates and annual hours worked, driven by women. In a calibrated life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce, we find that the divorce and tax mechanisms together can explain 45% of the variation in labor supply between the United States and the European countries.Aggregate labor supplyTaxationMarriageDivorceHeterogeneous householdstext::journal::journal article::research article