the value of consumption and leisure in the current marriage. We estimate this marital instability measure for every …'s marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich … data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness …

Conventional estimators based on the consumption Euler equation, intensively used in studies of intertemporal … consumption behavior, produce biased estimates of the effect of children on the marginal utility of consumption if consumers face … children on the marginal utility of consumption. I estimate these bounds using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and find that …

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 …

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 …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …-being, household saving, and even domestic violence and crime. …

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