We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married … clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is unaffected by spousal choice. Our … calculated high and highly variable marriage taxes materially reduce the probability of marriage particularly for low …

deadweight loss as well as reapportioning surplus. Kearney (2023) argues that declining marriage means American children grow up … in less-resourced families. I suggest this decline may reflect shortfalls in "soft" skills needed to make marriage …

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

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 …