beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

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

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

In this paper, we examine the impact of a sibling gender on educational attainment, earnings, family formation for a … recent cohort of women in China. Family characteristics such as number of siblings, sibling gender composition, and parents …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

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 …