Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships … between marital patterns and such variables as age at marriage and schooling as the California population. However, one should …

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat …

, and both of these effects appear to reflect primarily a shift towards earlier marriage and separation. Women in these … appears consistent with a causal role for marriage. Thus, exposure to easier divorce regulation as a youth appears to worsen …

behavioral responses to laws governing the age of marriage using both administrative records from the Vital Statistics and … restrictive laws. Second, many young people appear to have evaded minimum age of marriage laws by misrepresenting age on their … marriage certificate. This avoidance was especially pronounced in earlier years, when few states required documented proof of …

This paper studies how aggregate economic conditions affect marriage markets in developing countries where marriage is … regulated by traditional customary norms. We examine how local economic shocks influence the timing of marriage, and … particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with …