The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in …-supported programs in the United States aimed at rescuing marriage have not been proven effective. Ways need to be explored to get a …

-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our … standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility. …

We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …