The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … Employment Survey. The evidence presented here suggests that the likelihood of marital breakdown varies with the age at marriage …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage … family and society. We find that both the higher female marital status gap, and its time variability, vanish for those women …

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 …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital … affected positively by per capita income and negatively by the presence of Catholicism and the availability of divorce, while …

quantitative contributions of the many signifiant changes in the economic environment, family structure, and social norms that … find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to … family structure changes, we find that a simple change in preferences towards work can account for the remaining change in …

marriage and public spending on children is U-shaped, that is, declines in marriage first reduce and then increase such … men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the decline in marriage in these countries. This pattern is … mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions out of marriage make women, but not men, significantly more …