by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and … marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … developing countries are concerned since that date. The model provides a gender-neutral explanation of why girls in developing …

declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and …This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …