there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

1970 liberalization of the Pill for minors in the Netherlands and demand- and supply-side religious preferences that … conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …

marriage market is not unidimensional: individuals face important trade-offs between the attributes of their spouses which are …. -- multidimensional sorting ; saliency analysis ; marriage market ; personality traits ; continuous logit …

indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …