-called independence effect: If a wife enjoys a higher earning than her husband does, she gains less from marriage. It has also been argued …

successive marriage cohorts over the past twenty years, and synthetic period estimates suggest that roughly one-third of Japanese …

typical Eastern European marriage pattern of early and almost universal marriage was remarkably stable. The major crisis, the … Second World War, led to a postponement of marriage, but even in the female cohorts confronted with an extreme unbalanced … marriage market the proportion never married was remarkably low. …

marital status and a number of socio-demographic variables on risk of divorce. Polygynous marriage, remarriage and divorce … divorce decreased with marriage duration. The groom’s and bride’s low socio-economic status, illiteracy, and early age at … marriage increased the odds of divorce. The odds of divorce were much higher if there was no birth in the preceding six months. …

previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year in order to cover the developments up …

discussion of the proximate determinants of fertility. This paper uses unusual marriage history data to examine divorce and … more complicated than that. This is, for example, illustrated in the effect of the polygyny variables. Marriage, divorce …