marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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 …

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 …

I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage … fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …-specific relationships between age at marriage and income, as well as the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income …

having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …

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 …

we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …