administrative data, we find a significant, 44% increase in the probability to divorce for households with an underwater mortgage …We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

in house prices at the regional level impact on the likelihood of divorce. We use information from 18 waves (1991 … the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the … tenure show a small positive significant increase in the likelihood of divorce for couples in mortgaged property and private …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

properties of different divorce asset-division regimes are examined. A stylized common-law regime is shown to lead to fully …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …