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 …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration … differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and …

measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …

-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search … process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …

high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. …

marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …, 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 …

Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely …