in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …

, whether marriage makes people more satisfied with life or whether more satisfied couples are more likely to marry remains a … distinguish - controlling for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity - whether there is in fact an effect of marriage on life … persons - overestimates the effect of marriage on life satisfaction. A fixed-effects estimator reveals a much lower effect of …

For people from economically weak countries, one possible way of migration to the European Union is marriage with a EU … attractiveness as well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners lead to marriage with a woman from a poorer country. 2 … international marriage market than they could hope to attract within Germany. The analysis uses data from the German Socio …