incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to … marry, now face the same marriage incentives that different-sex couples faced for decades. We highlight marriage incentives … affecting older couples, who have rarely been studied. Using the American Community Survey, we estimate decreases in marriage …

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same …-sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal Social Security benefits to the estimated 4 percent … potential impact of the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples on Social Security. We primarily use data from the 2011 …

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 …

When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even … same across genders. If same-sex marriage is legalized and there is a positive mass of agents who find marriage with both …