of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …