In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … divorces has increased significantly in Germany since the mid 2000s. Interestingly, most of this increase is driven by couples …

two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less …