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 … framework is empirically relevant, since unilateral divorce is legal in many countries, and multiple empirical studies of the …

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in … unmarried women’s share of births since 1970, and the fact that black women have lower marriage rates and higher rates of … unmarried births than white women. The premise is that weaker marriage-market prospects may be strong enough to explain higher …

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 …

the new Civil Marriage Act (Law 19,947), which included absolute divorce for the first time in Chilean law. Until that … moment, the way that a marriage could formally be ended was by an annulment due to incompetence of the Civil Registry officer … although the divorce rate has increased considerably with respect to the annulment rate prior to the law, it is not high in …

constraints and determinisms. The major events in the family life, such as baptism, marriage (including the prenuptial relations … control over the expression of the family on the occasion of events, such as baptism, marriage or funerals. Due to the nature … general socio-economic system. If birth, marriage, divorce and decease are demographic events, while birth rate, married life …

that level, into the models. The positive health externality of marriage that has been suggested in the literature is … for both sexes, that marriage perhaps undermines rather than strengthens social cohesion, or that other mechanisms are …

dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show … that social security taxes and benefits generate incentives to reduce both family formation and fertility, and that these … measures account for a non-trivial part of the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, especially in OECD …

The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … Employment Survey. The evidence presented here suggests that the likelihood of marital breakdown varies with the age at marriage …