had little effect on the probabilities of entering into marriage and parenthood at a young age. In contrast, both the … marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage …

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present … varies by outcome and sample. -- marriage markets ; age difference ; selection …

versus no assimilation between the groups. -- assimilation ; migration ; marriage ; culture …

We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using … white man finds a thinner spouse in a black woman. -- interracial couples ; marriage market ; BMI ; wages ; education …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … is strong enough to cancel out the poor match effect. -- divorce ; marriage dissolution ; marital instability ; marriage …

observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterparts holding all else equal (the "marriage premium … productivity. Our results show that the marriage premium also holds for baseball players, where married players earn up to 16 … men. -- marriage premium ; wage gap ; productivity ; baseball …

trend. -- marriage ; relative income ; relative cohort size ; Easterlin hypothesis ; marriage squeeze …

no-fault divorce reforms reducing the security offered by marriage, in particular for women. …