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 …

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller … empirical test of this theory, until now, has been performed by McGoldrick and Robst (1996). Their results, using US data, do … not support the theory. Using German panel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification. Unlike …

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 …

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in … generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …