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 …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. -- Divorce ; marriage ; availability …

possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some …This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as …

higher-ability individuals more picky in the marriage market, which translates into a higher degree of economic homogamy in …