insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French … data reveals that this greater job insecurity for the under-50s led to a significant rise in their probability of marriage …, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour …

France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households. The proportion of wives outearning their husbands was 18% for dual … where the wife's education level is high. -- Marriage ; work behaviour ; household economics …

couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France, we use a regression discontinuity approach to identify the causal …

retirement age legislation in France as well as a retirement policy change to identify the effect of own and spousal retirement …

models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage … stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in France to instrument the effect of retirement on individual marriage … status, using Census data. While we cannot claim causality, we find that retirement correlates negatively with the marriage …

This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

revolution, which witnessed a rise in premarital sex and out-of-wedlock births, and a decline in marriage. The impact of … model where people search for partners. Upon finding one, they can choose between abstinence, marriage, and a premarital … sexual relationship. The model is confronted with some stylized facts about premarital sex and marriage over the course of …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …