In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward the birth of the first child … at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the education phase. (JEL codes: I26, J …

gender equality, family planning, low fertility, freedom of spouse choice, older ages at marriage, and the recognition of … sexual relations and childbearing outside marriage. I also discuss how developmental idealism produces resistance against it …

’s risk of a first conception within different union types (single, cohabitation, marriage) is influenced by education in … Hungary and whether this influence has changed over time. Additionally, I examine the transition to marriage among women who …

This paper explores the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women. We … develop an equilibrium search model of marriage, divorce, and investment in children that allows for differential timing of … by marriage and labor markets. We find that these incentives help explain both the cross-sectional relationship between …