effects of marriage penalties. In addition, it offers a unique perspective on 19th century marriage markets, which are little … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable … enough, suggesting that changes in the desirability of marriage to women may account for some of the aggregate patterns of …

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … (partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and …

. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of … divorce, three of which include learning. I use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to test reduced form …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … focus on an equation estimating the probability of divorce or remarriage. This paper reports on one such effort. It offers a … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships …

to family status transitions. For both single individuals and married couples who do not experience a death or divorce … transition, either a death or a divorce, exhibit much slower asset growth and often experience a large decline in asset values at …