In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during …, in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries age of marriage was much less correlated across Western … countries. I propose a simple model where age of marriage is a function of search frictions and a structural change of the …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting … marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

We investigate the effect of immigrants' marriage behavior on dropout from education. To identify the causal effect, we … exploit a recent Danish policy reform which generated exogenous variation in marriage behavior by a complete abolishment of … spouse import for immigrants below 24 years of age. We find that the abrupt change of marriage behavior following the reform …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

specifically, on the marital status of young men. We show that increased Internet usage is negatively associated with marriage …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …