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 …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human … polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage … represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. We show that married … individuals have a higher propensity to invest in risky assets than single ones, that the marital status gap is stronger for women …

appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …This paper examines differences in the labour supply of women of different religions in Israel. We estimate religious … differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is …

estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is … 'spacing' of births appears to have been more widespread in districts in which female employment opportunities were relatively …

This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … decline for women over the last few decades, and we show that this is not due to the effects of male inequality on female …

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 …

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow … predictions, we find that the “marital college-plus premium” has increased for women but not for men. …