In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially …-cut implications for marriage strategies, migratory flows, and fertility rates. …

This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on … marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are … efficiently). The model seeks to reconcile the conflicting empirical evidence on the relationship between marriage rates and …

existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the … marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … relationship that has been “sealed” by marriage. The goal of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model that can explain the …

the 8th grade completion rate for women by 30 percentage points—on marriage and birth outcomes of teenage women in Turkey …. We find that increased compulsory schooling years reduce the probability of teenage marriage and births for women … substantially, and these effects persist well beyond the new compulsory schooling years: the probability of marriage by age 18 falls …

The issue of same-sex marriage legalization is increasingly part of the national political dialogue. This legalization …-called marriage penalty. I estimate the effects of same-sex marriage legalization on federal income tax revenue. These estimates rely … propose a novel measure of the marriage penalty that incorporates the fact that agents will respond optimally to changes in …