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 …

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 …

cohabitation. An excess supply of men who prefer marriage not only reduces the marriage incentives of men and raises those of women … marry or cohabitate. Marriage encourages but does not ensure a higher level of spousal commitment, which in turn can … prefer to act with commitment in marriage are matched with someone who has the same preference. In such an equilibrium, the …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of …, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time …

marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the …

80 percent of them were married or cohabiting. Early marriage/cohabitation is indeed intrinsically related to early …In this study, we used data from the Young Lives study, which investigates teenage childbearing, marriage, and … cohabitation by tracking a cohort of individuals from the ages of 8 to 19 years. While the present analysis does not intend to …