This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as … well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born …

change in expected household EITC benefits associated with marrying affect cohabitation and marriage behavior among low …-income women. I first simulate a marriage market to predict potential spouse earnings for a sample of low-income women in order to … estimate the potential losses or gains in EITC benefits upon marriage. Using multinomial logistic regressions, I then analyze …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

marriage is examined using survival analysis. A search model predicts that, the more risk averse the individual, the shorter … the time to first marriage. The estimates support the theory, indicating that risk aversion significantly affects time to … marriage, with more risk averse respondents marrying sooner than their more risk loving counterparts. Within-family analyses …