labor supply choices. This is mainly due to the fact that East German women are much more attached to the labor market. …

:3 percent of the women born between 1954 and 1958 started their first union outside of a formal marriage. The figure increases …Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no … longer the exclusive context of family formation. In the United States (US) for instance, the number of unmarried couples …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …