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 …

that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

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

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …: the raising age of marriage, the prevalence of assortative mating and the common occurrence of divorce in the early years …

The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …

frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets, making use of what we label constrained job search. The optimal … strategy entails different reservation wages for different men, and we establish the existence of a search equilibrium …

the small differences in married men's and the large differences in married women's hours worked in the data. Taking the … generating the low cross-country correlation between married men's and women's hours worked in the data, and for explaining the …