of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

I argue that household specialization and investment in firm-specific human capital explainthe male marriage premium … not change upon marriage. The model has two other predictions, that among the self-employed wages should increase upon … marriage, and that the cross-sectional marriage premium should have declined over time. Using the Panel Study on Income …

This 14-year longitudinal study extends previous research on money in marriage by using multiple measures of money to … first decade and a half of marriage, thus making it possible to examine the effects of money on marital quality across time … marriage increased over time such that by the time couples were nearly a decade a half into marriage couple’s income was …

cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …

individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase … in female labor market participation is larger for highly-educatedwomen but the decrease in marriage rates is more …