Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

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 …

Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be … better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration … in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and …

In recent decades marriage has become less important. While in 1991 60.2 per cent of adults in Germany were married, in … increase in the number of marriages and a declining divorce rate. Attitudes towards marriage are likewise nuanced. On the one …