This paper studies the formation of marriage relationships between two households in 19th century, Tama, Japan …. Previous studies on marriage market or partner selection in the Japanese past tended to rely either on information from a … single village in case of statistical analysis, or on collection of oral histories. By using the information from a household …

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 … rise in education and wage inequality, and by the shrinking gender wage gap. …

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. …

We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market : since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their … societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …

, 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 …

Although the tax system is not marriage neutral in many countries, it has been found only slightly significant in … determining marriage decision (Buffeteau and Echevin, 2003; Alm and Whittington, 1995). This paper tests if the tax system could … either contract a marriage or a civil union (pacs). I assess the impact of taxation on the decision to contract a pacs using …

after marriage. Instead, participants who got married reported short-term increases followed by complete adaptation back to … cohort-based analyses from a nationally representative sample. Second, these analyses do not control for pre-marriage … marriage. …