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 …

violence against Jews in the 1920s, and of votes for the Nazi Party. In addition, cities that saw medieval anti …-Semitic violence also had higher deportation rates for Jews after 1933, were more likely to see synagogues damaged or destroyed in the …

In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian …

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 …

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

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in …

family model – one in which their mother was skilled and/or worked. These men, we hypothesize, were more inclined to marry …