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 …

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 … insurance is linked to marriage, marital behavior is an integral component of couples' strategies to plan for financial security …

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

reflects the outside option of the marriage, and captures earnings variation that is not endogenous to domestic violence. I …

religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to …

are also 1.8% more likely to graduate from upper secondary school and have more stable marriage market outcomes as adults …