by marital separation. However, while Protestants are protected against divorce, Catholics are punished for it. These … on both attitudes (the religious are both anti-divorce and anti-job creation for the unemployed) and behaviour (the …

This paper asks whether a gap in spouses' subjective happiness matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use … larger happiness gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation. This association … into account by any existing economic models of the household. The relationship between happiness gaps and divorce is …

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …

Le chapitre traite de l'économie du droit du divorce en abordant, dans une première partie, la question de savoir si …, le droit du divorce est neutre. …

default, banks might be willing to lend to stable couples. In presence of incomplete information, marriage could be used as a … signal of the quality of the match. This paper investigates the link between marriage and credit constraints. I use matching … methods to evaluate the impact of marriage on credit constraints. I find that married couples are more likely to be approved …

marriage in Western Europe and in Northern America: declining marriage rates, increase in cohabitation, increasing divorce … demand for different marital contracts. In France, since 1999, two types of marital contracts are available: the marriage and … of the age at first marriage by cohort. It detects some recent changes in the bottom of the distribution of the age at …

We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market : since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their …

, different-sex couples can contract either a marriage or a civil union, called a pacs. It is a new legal form of union, more … flexible than marriage. The pacs turned to be successful, 30% of new unions in 2007 were pacs. In 2005, the income taxation of … the choice to contract a pacs is determined by short-term views. Then it questions the link between marriage and civil …