) assortative matching by age, and (2) \differential age matching, a formalization of the age difference at marriage between men and …Consider a marriage market with continuous-time two-sided search and transferable utility in which the match payoff … depends on age. This paper characterizes a set of payoff functions consistent with two salient marriage age patterns: (1 …

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. …

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 …

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

This paper shows that all perfect Bayesian equilibria of a dynamic matching game with two-sided incomplete information …

model with search and matching frictions in the labor market. Our results arise for empirically plausible parametrizations …

Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden …. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for survivors insurance up to 50 years before expected payout, especially among … (capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …