and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …

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 …

marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

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