Analyzing the usufruct of the surviving spouse under Belgian inheritance law, with special attention to the …

option affected the stability of marriages in the Netherlands. Leveraging the ban of the procedure in 2009, I show that the …

In this article, the question is raised why upon the introduction of same sex marriage no one has raised the issue … whether one should take for granted the automatic application of the legal marital property law that was made for heterosexual …, after obtaining the equal position in marriage, one should take up the issue whether the typical mainstream legal regime, in …

marriage market is not unidimensional: individuals face important trade-offs between the attributes of their spouses which are …

Competition Theory and Contact Theory, we used data from the Netherlands Kinship and Panel Survey supplemented with unique …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is … stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is … stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …

The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent … formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …

In this chapter I analyse the Belgian marital contract of separation of property, both civil law and tax aspects …