By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …

marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … relationship that has been “sealed” by marriage. The goal of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model that can explain the … existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …

concerning marriage; differences between lifetime incomes for prospective partners and a marriage premium. We develop a two … period model to bring out the main features of the impact of marriage on consumption and saving. We then develop a multi …

This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on … marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are … efficiently). The model seeks to reconcile the conflicting empirical evidence on the relationship between marriage rates and …

such matters. In particular, a close reading of Jevons's Theory of Political Economyis proposed as an antidote to over …-easy generalisation. Jevons by no means rejected all elements of classical theory. He did not propose a catallatic revolution; he … aware of the necessarily general equilibrium nature of his theory but that he was simply not able to cope with it …