Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more … 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 … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender … 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 … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …

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 … more so for childless whites and where there are fewer men per woman. Effects are larger for college-educated men and women …

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …