Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in … generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …

-in-differences estimation strategy to compare how the same individual invests at different points in time (before and after marriage or divorce … portfolios. We find that marriage acts as a financial risk-reducer for men and as a financial risk-increaser for women, in the … sense that women increase the fraction of wealth invested in stocks after marriage and decrease it after divorce, whereas …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

In this paper we provide an empirical investigation of the determinants of divorce in the Danish marriage market. The …

not have a positive effect on marriage duration. …