subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. -- Divorce ; marriage ; availability …: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s beliefs in marriage fortune predictions by the Taoist astrological system Tử … Vi. First, we estimate a structural model of assortative marriage matching and show that such beliefs’ importance in … marriage formation amounts to 6.5% of that of the entire age and education profile. Second, we estimate the effect of …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

properties of different divorce asset-division regimes are examined. A stylized common-law regime is shown to lead to fully …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

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 …