marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … relationship that has been “sealed” by marriage. The goal of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model that can explain the … existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …

We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the …, legal cost of divorce, initial endowments, couple and single productivity parameters on the payoffs and marital status in …

The two documents which are the subject of the present study, made to share property in the event of divorce, help to … marriage furniture, tools, animals, prices, food, secular and religious involvement of the private life etc. In addition to …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on … marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are … framework is empirically relevant, since unilateral divorce is legal in many countries, and multiple empirical studies of the …

The two documents, which are the subject of the present study, made to share property in the event of divorce, help to … marriage furniture, tools, animals, prices, food, secular and religious involvement of the private life etc. In addition to …

This works tests whether or not the introduction of divorce law changes the timing of marital search. Common sense … suggests that rational agents should adjust to the divorce risk by increasing the average length of search spell, whereas the … strong evidence that the legal innovation actually lowered the age at marriage, thereby worsening the level of marital …