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 … on fertility are discussed. …

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 …

more related tothe diminishing willingness to marry than a changing attitude toward fertility. In asetting where … 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 … techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with …

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 …