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 … taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …

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 …

continuities in household composition. In particular, households in the pre-industrial era were no more likely than present … resulted in a household composition which resembles that produced by early widowhood in the seventeenth century. Nor has the … to illustrate household types. The paper concludes by suggesting that a standard set of tables should be agreed upon and …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … considered: technological progress in the household sector and shifts in the wage structure. The analysis emphasizes the joint …

Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been …

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is …

Household Income and Wealth, which has data on real estate transfers and information on potential donors as well as recipients …