marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

This paper provides new evidence on wage premiums for men in relation to marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the … cohabitation wage premium, albeit smaller than the marriage premium, for white and black men but not for Hispanic men. The wage …

reputable arranged-marriage market that is prone to strong caste-status based discrimination. We place newspaper advertisements …

than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …