Unique data from the Berea Panel Study provides new evidence about fertility outcomes before age 30 and beliefs about …, while married individuals have very accurate beliefs. Novel attractiveness measures are central for understanding fertility … beliefs and outcomes for females but not for males. Marriage is a mechanism that is relevant for understanding differences in …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … not increase the likelihood existing marriages are preserved. Fertility is modestly accelerated by a lottery win, but … there is little effect on total fertility. Our results support a causal pathway behind differences in homeownership and …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships … between marital patterns and such variables as age at marriage and schooling as the California population. However, one should …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage …, it does not appear to distort incentives for divorce …

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat …

, and both of these effects appear to reflect primarily a shift towards earlier marriage and separation. Women in these … appears consistent with a causal role for marriage. Thus, exposure to easier divorce regulation as a youth appears to worsen …