the preponderance of pensioner households, who, for instance, account for all the poor households in the 1961 Family …

first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

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 …

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 …

divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous … involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and …

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 …