Using unique, representative data on domestic violence, we document several stylized facts on abuse: the average …. We then construct a sequential model of employment, marriage and abuse. The results indicate abuse is the primary factor … in the decision to divorce and witnessing violence as a child is a strong predictor of becoming an abusive spouse. Policy …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

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

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … married hedges are the ones most likely to be caught short with too little love in order to save a marriage in the event of an … means and volatilities of partners' incomes are also derived from the theory and tested. …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …