marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates … for marital commitment. As the gains from traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of …, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time …

Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves different functions among … educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages are relatively stable …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women …

beliefs and outcomes for females but not for males. Marriage is a mechanism that is relevant for understanding differences in …