We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing …

-earners. About 24% of American women in dual-earner households earned more than their husband in 2004. Using a model of household …

contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest … measures of taxation, driven by men, and a positive correlation between hours worked and divorce rates, driven by women …. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

-violent marriages, the vast majority of violent marriages end in divorce, and employment rates are lower for women who experience abuse …. We then construct a sequential model of employment, marriage and abuse. The results indicate abuse is the primary factor … experiments suggest men are more responsive to policies designed to increase the costs of abuse than women are to policies …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …

importation: the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …