positive trend in relative housework. We develop a simple bargaining model of marriage, divorce and allocations of leisure …

before marriage, but a result of interaction within the household. If so, the positive correlation between the working … husband brings to the marriage if his mother worked that also make it more attractive for his wife to work. This paper …

The paper investigates how marriage rates and the gains to marriage are affected by city size in three societies … marriage rates in all three societies. There are small decreasing returns to scale effects in China and the US. The paper … rejects the presence of a thick market externality in marriage markets for all three societies …

transmission of inequality …

marriage and divorce? To answer this question, we build a model of marriage with two main features. First, there exists … consistent with the secular improvement in marriage conditions for men, the rise in age at marriage, and the rise in divorce … the variation in marriage rates over time can be explained by changes in the sex ratio …

recent pro-marriage public policies. One difficulty with these policies is that there is substantial evidence that … estimate a sequential model of a couple's behavior (from marriage onwards). In the model, parents value the quality of their … gains from trade within marriage. Conflict may trigger a divorce through either channel. When estimating the model, I allow …