of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …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 …

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 … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …

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

marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …

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 …