individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … declining gains from specialization formen influence potential spouse selection. Men and women with fewer labor marketprospects … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase …

marriage health gap is similar for men and women. If we allow for unobserved heterogeneity in innate health (permanent and age …-dependent), potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears below age …-59 years). This indicates that the observed gap is mainly driven by selection into marriage at younger ages, but there might be …

on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … 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 …

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 …

specialization and competitiveness of the agro-industry in the state of Minas Gerais and its contribution to the increase in the …

to endogenous specialization, which is compatible with competition yet causes GDP per capita to rise indefinitely with …