less psychological harm from unemployment than do the non-religious; equally both Catholics and Protestants are less hurt … different economic and social systems: consistent with this, unemployment replacement rates across Europe are lower in more …

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 …

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. …

This paper analyzes the conditional probability of leaving unemployment of French married individuals from 1991 to 2002 …. We find that the effect of spousal labor income on unemployment duration is asymmetric for men and women. In particular … women. To adjust for endogenous selection into marriage, we use the quarter of birth as an instrumental variable for the …

This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for … four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings … on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for men and women. In particular, an elasticity of 0.38 for men and -0 …