This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

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 …

. 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 ﾖ 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 …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …

that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Most of this effect is due to a decline of … divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have children marry more easily with an … easier quot;exit optionquot; from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years of marriage, while the total …

This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to …