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 …

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

We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …

generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …

richer wives, and conversely women from the same first quarter have less educated husbands. In cohabiting couples, white men …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … quarters of birth and socioeconomic attributes. Using the American Community Survey data 2010-2012, I show that white women …

own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of marriage and divorce, which …, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …