of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … higher their probability of starting of the first cohabitation and the lower their risk to have the first marriage. Our … analysis showed that a cohabitation is not yet a complete alternative to marriage, but it has a possibility of becoming it for …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

The term "marriage crisis" is becoming more visible in Iranian public and private debates and constitutes a major issue … study examines the link between housing costs and marriage rate in Iran controlling for other relevant economic determinants … of marriage. Using a panel of provinces of Iran over a period of nine years (2003-2011) and applying generalized method …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …