marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …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 …

affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well-being …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election was a strong predictor for supporting same-sex marriage. When … the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

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 …

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

-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …