women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

The family life courses of immigrants and their descendants, particularly intermarriage and the timing of marriage and … of cohabitation in the family lives of these subpopulations. Choosing cohabitation as first union may, for instance …

orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and …

than those married. We expected to find fewer differences between cohabitation and marriage in countries where cohabitation … is widespread. Correspondingly, we find that the difference between marriage and cohabitation is largest in Russia …

Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden …. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for survivors insurance up to 50 years before expected payout, especially among … insurance is linked to marriage, marital behavior is an integral component of couples' strategies to plan for financial security …

singulate mean age of marriage (SMAM) in countries of origin was positively related to cohabitation, whereas those originating … immigrated as children or teens, in combination with data from the World Marriage Database, we investigate how residential … partner markets and marriage behavior in countries of origin shape partner choice and choice of union type in Norway. Results …