administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling …, reflecting the increasing incidence of divorce and the expansion of female labor market participation. In particular, towards the … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

, 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 …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in …

relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a poor-match effect … evidence of the existence of this effect: women who delay marriage disproportionately make unconventional matches, which are … to first marriage has been accompanied by higher proportions of women entering marriage with 16 years of schooling or …