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 …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage …-marital investments and intra-household allocations are efficient. We also show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a …

Through marriage, individuals can share some risks that would otherwise be uninsurable. In this paper, we ask how much … idiosyncratic income risk can be diversified away through marriage contracts alone versus how much risk there remains for public … agents and intra-household negociation. Individuals differ in gender, accumulated wealth, as well as employment and marriage …

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 …

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 …