still would prefer to maintain it. The main finding is that when break-up costs are sufficiently high, choosing a marriage … marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … additional tangible benefits to the couple. However, this assumption is not obvious, and these potential benefits (or costs) may …

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 …

aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …