administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s beliefs in marriage fortune predictions by the Taoist astrological system Tử … Vi. First, we estimate a structural model of assortative marriage matching and show that such beliefs’ importance in … marriage formation amounts to 6.5% of that of the entire age and education profile. Second, we estimate the effect of …

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason …

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 …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …