marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the … trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and spousal decision-making after a marriage has …

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have … -- BMI ; height ; wages ; earnings ; marriage market …

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 …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …

before and after marriage, in 1997 and 2007 respectively, and the same in true for each of the three subsamples analyzed …