average. This holds not just for standard characteristics but also for those directly related to marriage like children and …

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 …

developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively … related to the size of the group due to frictions in the marriage market: Search costs for co-ethnic spouses are larger the …

developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively … related to the size of the group due to frictions in the marriage market: Search costs for co-ethnic spouses are larger the …

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …

specialization between husband and wife (Becker, 1974). If husbands and wives operate their marriages like trading nations, they … shows both that they profit substantially from marriage in many ways and that they do better the more specialized, or … "traditional," the marriage (Nock, 1998). The last fifty years have worked dramatic changes in the options available to women, as …

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 …