forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated …

, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap can be explained by income pooling and public-goods sharing as well as … making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …% of the marriage gain in longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed …

experiments, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap can be explained by public-goods sharing and collective bargaining of … biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U … that, as singles, men live 8.5 months shorter and women 6 months longer. We conclude that about 30% of the marriage gain in …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

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 …

contractual lens, which enables us to theorize about long-run marriage and divorce rates. … Christianity. The paper takes a historical and contemporary look at how religious traditions affect marriage, using a modified …