increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …-scale highway construction program, we show that men from areas with stronger dowry traditions have a higher migration response to …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in …

players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery …

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 …

sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after … 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 …

. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience … marriage predict that males with higher wage rates have a greater gain from marriage and are therefore more likely to marry …

marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models, including transition matrices, OLS and TSLS … models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry … that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our results …

show conditions under which an intensified competition in the marriage market can induce men to raise their savings rate … steady increase in the surplus of men relative to women. We construct an OLG model with two sexes and a desire to marry. We …

impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and …There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non … economic position of men in these populations is at least partially responsible for these trends. That leads to the reverse …