This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share …

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 … existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …

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 …

Service was one of the main characteristics of the European Marriage Pattern in pre-industrial western Europe. During …

by examining how the prospect of joint child custody affects marriage-specific investment in children’s private … provides a natural experiment framework with which to examine marriage-specific investment in children. The probability of …

differences between households or differences within households in Malawi. Using a linear model with random effects, we derive a …, and birth order lines in Malawi. The results for rural and urban areas, as well as ethnic and religious groups show that …