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 …

made early marriage more attractive and facilitated women’s educational and occupational attainments. Marriage combined …Women’s economic emancipation arguably took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ubiquitous, its origins are … not well understood. In an influential paper, Goldin and Katz [2002] pointed to the role of unmarried women’s access to …

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 … remarriage within three years of dissolution. The analysis is based on the demographic and work histories in the 1980 Women and …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

Women's disadvantages on the labour market leave them financially vulnerable when divorced. The number of elderly … divorced women is growing, but their pension prospects are poor. The paper outlines current British arrangements for pensions … and their treatment in divorce, and explains the case for new law on pension splitting. Men's and women's lifetime …

working and educated women in the population over time. Male preferences evolved because some men experienced a different … women who themselves were skilled or worked. Our model endogenizes the evolution of preferences in a dynamic setting and … examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … feasible for singles to maintain their own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of … 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. …