examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … fronts, more conflicts were started by its rivals. Another not necessarily mutually exclusive theory claims that the Imperial …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and …

available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …