more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

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 …

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

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 …

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

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 …