This essay is an updated, expanded and revised version of the second half of Divorce Rates, Marriage Rates, and the … declining marriage rates …

fringe categories of beneficiaries within the broader context of relationship theory …

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 …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

A theory of the economic aspects of the law of marriage. In The Nature of the Firm (1937), Ronald Coase noted that …’ll support me." Some are short term: "I’ll drop off the dry-cleaning; you pick up the kids." Economic theory tells us that such … marriage substitutes non-contractual rules to enforce implicit deals between spouses. Like corporate law, it largely supplants …