) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

Administrative divorce is an optional divorce procedure which allows couples to bypass the court system and dissolve … their marriages in a streamlined, uncontested process. The lack of court involvement renders the administrative divorce … faster and less expensive than the conventional divorce. In this paper, I investigate whether the administrative divorce …

norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts …We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage. We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … divorce while providing consumption insurance to their partner. This, in turn, increases the value of marriage for those able …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced a decrease in new marriages, and an increase in both divorce and … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … cooperation. -- Gender ; cohabitation ; marriage ; divorce ; alimony ; matrimonial property ; fertility ; division of labour …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we …

In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and … 80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early …