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 …

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 …

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

marriage is examined using survival analysis. A search model predicts that, the more risk averse the individual, the shorter … the time to first marriage. The estimates support the theory, indicating that risk aversion significantly affects time to … marriage, with more risk averse respondents marrying sooner than their more risk loving counterparts. Within-family analyses …

results discussing the issue of same-sex marriage. I do not attempt to justify it on legal or moral grounds; I aim rather to … repudiate the arguments which reject same-sex marriage based on the concept of moral externalities …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …