marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

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

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …

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

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married … clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is unaffected by spousal choice. Our … calculated high and highly variable marriage taxes materially reduce the probability of marriage particularly for low …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … young males. Lower marriage matching in the 18th and 19th centuries is accompanied by lower inequality across households …In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …