data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job displacement increases … the mortality risk for both the man and his partner. For every 10,000 displaced men, there are 27 additional deaths over a … due to excess spousal mortality. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases jump up and hospitalization records show more …

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 …

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role. -- Fertility ; marriage ; cohabitation ; switching … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and …

are more likely to report specializing on other tasks as well. Given the role couples have in family formation and the …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …