indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

be qualified according to Belgian civil law (marital advantage and not donation). The piece then analyses how such … transfers must be treated under Belgian inheritance tax law …

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 …

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

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

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 …