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

economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …

assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical … models of the determinants of different well-being outcomes and the role of family structure in producing those outcomes. It … also discusses models of the determinants of marriage. The study then overviews specific statistical techniques that have …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates …

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 …

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 …

example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …