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

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …

We demonstrate that the notion of a “family constitution” (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …

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 … premature mortality, and raise the share of mothers who are unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single …

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 … characterised by beauty premium and/or marriage premium. Predicted profiles of premia allow for potential falsification tests and …

that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …