It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect …

This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our … determinants of marital happiness in the two countries. In the U.S., the findings are mixed. Women in the U.S. are more likely to … embrace the bargaining model where their happiness is determined by their own income. Men in the U.S. are more likely to …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … is strong enough to cancel out the poor match effect. -- divorce ; marriage dissolution ; marital instability ; marriage … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late …

After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been … a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong … quantitative support was found for the remaining mechanisms. -- divorce ; wage inequality …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … and non-marital fertility. For white women, but not for their black and Hispanic counterparts, delayed entry into marriage …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …