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 …

distinct phenotypes: Caucasian, mestizo and indigenous. We also randomly vary marital status across gender and phenotype. Hence …

agriculture. As a consequence, when speaking about the socio-professional determinism in choosing a marriage partner, we have to … better socio-professional options, their determinism on marriage could be identified as highly important. How can we … determine the way in which the socio-professional element influenced marriage? To what extent a young man with a superior social …

Mixed marriage is one of the factors providing the link between interethnic and interreligious communities. Ethnic and … these communities were living together, it was natural that this “cooperation” should be visible in the case of marriage … and promoted a new perception of mixed marriage through a lay legislation. On the other hand, in the mixed Greek …

France, for instance, the young wife has to be an “apprentice” for a year by her mother-in-law or another woman, if the …