Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …

in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …

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 …

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 …

born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility …