of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …

marriage since the 1970s. This dissertation examines the relationship between men’s socioeconomic characteristics and marriage … formation and the labor market causes of marriage declines since the 1970s. It is motivated by three aspects of labor market … of noncollege educated black men is partly responsible for their faster rate of marriage decrease. The effect of …

marriage behavior in determining fertility levels. Coale's parameters of the age pattern of first marriage ao, k and C are … first marriage, marital disruption and remarriage on fertility. Techniques for obtaining detailed information on the process …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … polygynous. The results are driven by the larger inequality in the value of women in the marriage market in modern economies …

and family characteristics. Overall, there are very few differences in the association between marriage and earnings for …This paper uses Australian data from the Negotiating the Life Course Project 1997 to investigate the impact of marriage … on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is …

the most dominant female occupation. Thelinkage between the change in the labor market and change in family structure has … individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase …

I argue that household specialization and investment in firm-specific human capital explainthe male marriage premium … not change upon marriage. The model has two other predictions, that among the self-employed wages should increase upon … marriage, and that the cross-sectional marriage premium should have declined over time. Using the Panel Study on Income …