property in case of divorce. Based on a rational choice model of marriage and assuming that on average women earn less than men … religiosity, and the interaction between these variables and legal regime regarding divorce. We test our predictions with … that offer most women less access to joint property in case of divorce, and that this effect is weaker for teenagers than …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …. -- savings behavior ; marriage ; divorce ; economics of marriage ; gender roles …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …