Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market …? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a … model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …

data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness …'s marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich … the value of consumption and leisure in the current marriage. We estimate this marital instability measure for every …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

divorce. I model the marital decisions of couples as a sequential game, in which the gain to marriage increases with household … bargaining power within marriage. This in turn affects the equilibrium marital outcomes. I use the variation in the timing of the … passage of the homemaking provision to identify its effect on marriage. I find that the provision substantially increases …