This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

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

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …

respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative …

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to … marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …

marriage formation along educational lines. Our empirical analysis for Germany shows that educational assortative mating has …. -- Assortative marriage ; Microcensus ; education ; log-linear models …

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …