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 …

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 … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

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 …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …