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 …

I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the … interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age of men and women at first marriage. Within a simple … two-period overlapping generation model, I show that given an increase of the desired number of children age at marriage …

cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …

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 …

Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …

fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential shock in relation to wealth: divorce is likely to reduce wealth … consumption. To identify the relation between divorce and wealth in Germany, this study employs wealth data on the individual … histories. To account for the reversed causality between divorce and wealth, conditional difference-in-differences matching …

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 …

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 …