This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

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 …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

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

incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to … marry, now face the same marriage incentives that different-sex couples faced for decades. We highlight marriage incentives … affecting older couples, who have rarely been studied. Using the American Community Survey, we estimate decreases in marriage …