The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … Employment Survey. The evidence presented here suggests that the likelihood of marital breakdown varies with the age at marriage …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage … family and society. We find that both the higher female marital status gap, and its time variability, vanish for those women …

which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is … stress on parity-specific family limitation spreading in response to improvements in contraceptive information and technology. …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …