In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

with the family eventually redefined the concept of small children and so shifted the position of homemaker from being a …

The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in …-supported programs in the United States aimed at rescuing marriage have not been proven effective. Ways need to be explored to get a …

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies …, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and … a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). In this paper, we …

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …