This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

Declining marriage rates and increasing cohabitation rates in modern Russia have become a trend that many scholars have … higher their probability of starting of the first cohabitation and the lower their risk to have the first marriage. Our … analysis showed that a cohabitation is not yet a complete alternative to marriage, but it has a possibility of becoming it for …

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