marital outcomes. Little is known, however, about how the dates of the weddings predict marriage durability. Using Dutch … marriage and divorce registries from 1999-2013, this study compares the durations of marriages that began on Valentine's Day …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …