We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human … polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …

differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is … which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …