The standard Beckerian analysis of marriage market equilibrium assumes that allocation within marriage implements … agreements made in the marriage market. This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium when allocation within marriage is … determined by bargaining in marriage and compares that model with the standard model. When bargaining in marriage determines …

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

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households … members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with … at age 25, the marriage premium is monotonically increasing with observed maternal age and education …

marriage, the appropriate framework for analyzing marriage market equilibrium is the Gale-Shapley matching model.In contrast …This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines … allocation within marriage. Prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, are assumed to foresee the outcome of BIM …

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …