Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

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

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

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 …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and … simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While … risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …