Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is … that removing the asymmetric information about sexual safety accelerates marriage and pregnancy for safe respondents, and … and accelerated marriage and pregnancy, increasing the probabilities of marriage and pregnancy by 26 and 27 percent for …

or region of residence) operate on the same marriage market and are characterized by a homogeneous consumption technology … consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected.We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …