convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This … transition-era France, 1750-1850. The results show that it was the richest groups who reduced their family size first and that …

sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first … period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The …

Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …

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 …

demand for different marital contracts. In France, since 1999, two types of marital contracts are available: the marriage and … marriage in Western Europe and in Northern America: declining marriage rates, increase in cohabitation, increasing divorce … 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 … societies and over time, can be determined, among others, by income inequality, gender differences, social stratification and …

This paper looks whether the choice to contract a civil union is motivated by fiscal reasons. Since 1999, in France …, 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 …

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 … alter the decision to contract a civil union, which is a less binding marital contract. In France, since 1999, couples can …