divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

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 …

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 …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … of household specialization, shocks to male relative stature reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with sociological …

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 …, compounded with isolation from extended family as well as a lack of social and market infrastructure, constrained female …

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

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