data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for …

respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with … education and religiousness. -- Divorce ; homogamy ; education …

, 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 …

formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality … important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men … and women; this is consistent with marital returns based on joint consumption. Divorce is associated with low expected …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …