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 …

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 develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number …) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped. We show how family patterns have been shaped by the …

Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced … at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …