of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …