I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with …

family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A possible …