inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male … marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …