credit. The first is that incentives to default are lower for community members who can expect retaliation to fall on their …

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 …

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