Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with …

propensities to form families via marriage or a nonmarital first birth among the majority population and the children of immigrants … America. Results demonstrated a generational shift toward the Nordic late marriage pattern among women and men originating …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct … lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March 14 to May 8 2020, and the closure of marriage halls that lasted till … Pakistan where birth rates remain high, marriage is nearly universal, and almost all child- bearing takes place within marriage …

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing … effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing … effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …