marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the … regime from polygyny to monogamy. The introduction of serial monogamy follows from a further rise in either the proportion of … rich males, or an increase in the proportion of rich females. Strict monogamy is a prerequisite to serial monogamy, as it …

Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capital accumulation was a prime engine of … growth, inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity …

polygyny. Nor can they be explained by greater propensity for cooperation among women generally or by the household head acting …

benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … prove that women are better off under polygyny than under monogamy. …A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the …

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 …