) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …

. 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 …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … divorce while providing consumption insurance to their partner. This, in turn, increases the value of marriage for those able …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose …

norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts …We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

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 …

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 …

post marriage investment indicates that the spouse with the comparative advantage in investment will increase his …/her investment in human capital after his/her marriage, whereas the other spouse will decrease it. The more efficient investment due … to marriage enables the achievement of a Pareto improvement …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights … to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law …