arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption …

available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

Recent theoretical contributions have suggested consumption externalities, or peergroup effects, as a potential … intertemporal consumption choice is a completely open question. To shed some light on the issue, we derive an extension of the … standard life-cycle model that allows for consumption externalities. The analysis is complicated by the challenge of …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that … incorporates household consumption and family labour supply decisions. We derive analytical expressions based on approximations for … the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …

capital ; consumption …