the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to …

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 …

-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 …

European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016 …

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