administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay inthe city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who marriedoutside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …

there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … adaptation theory. We find that marital partnership improves well-being and that these benefits are homogeneous to sexual … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and …

We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in … the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Samesex marriage legalization allowed registered partnerships to be transformed … into marriage. Since registered partnerships and marriages are similar in terms of rights and obligations we can …

discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for … marriage is not the only channel. Examinations of alternative mechanisms combined with literature suggest that the legislation …