We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies …, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and … a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we …

find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to …

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 …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

household income; husband’s unemployment and perceived financial stress; young age at marriage; separation of parents; second …-plus marriage; and resident children born before marriage. …