manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some … scholars interested in intra-marriage distribution, and documents that Becker's students at Chicago were more interested in …

perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … family, these norms have lost their strength, so that agents can afford the luxury of searching their preferred partners at …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the …-Coles (1997) do not apply for a marriage market linked to this labor market and discuss the consequences of this …

In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family … the informal safety net in a period when social protection was provided by the family. Once the State started offering … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …