This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

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

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support … the notion that increased skill inequality contributes to rising earnings inequality. …

This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use … an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational … earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under different assumptions about assortative mating and women's earnings …

developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

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 …

A simple model of marriage and divorce predicts that no marriages occur. Yet, in real life, people marry all the time … formed but end in divorce, some last a lifetime. For certain parameterizations a lifelong efficient marriage is guaranteed … exceedingly emotionally unattractive. These results may have some bearing also on other partnerships than marriage. …