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 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 …

cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both … theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the …

This 14-year longitudinal study extends previous research on money in marriage by using multiple measures of money to … first decade and a half of marriage, thus making it possible to examine the effects of money on marital quality across time …. Overall, the findings indicate that money affects marital quality. Specifically, low income was associated behavioral …

for a longer gainful employment; 2. to advance the interaction between generations; 3. to design jobs which are open to …

money but it is the organising feature of modern economies, giving rise to both episodes of stability and crises. In … constructing this argument I consider both orthodox and heterodox points of view. We analyse equilibrium models of money, and find … that while money can exist in sequence economies with frictions, models of this type give no justification for its creation …

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 …