In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

data for couples, when individuals differ by gender, age, weight and education. The model also identifies new variables … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These … variables include sex ratios (and exogenous parameters that influence sex ratios) as well as legal changes related to marriage …

The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the … time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data …

property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and assuming that on average women earn less than men … retrospective data from the Family Fertility Surveys collected in the 1990s. Most of our predictions are confirmed by a multi …

color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra …-household bargaining and hedonic marriage markets operating with the help of an implicit price mechanism can lead to a premium for those … work by 37 minutes. Marriage markets appear to be influenced by racial discrimination based on color. …

all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but … not for immigrant men. Traditional gender-based privileges may allow immigrant men to prevent native women from capturing …

color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of marriage, recognizes that both intra …-household bargaining and hedonic marriage markets operating with the help of an implicit price mechanism can lead to a premium for those … chores work by 37 minutes. Marriage markets appear to be influenced by racial discrimination based on color. …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …