This paper, written for a Conference on Multi-Tiered Marriage, explores what the State role in regulating marriage is …, and should be, given the growing set of alternative marriage options, and the greater decentralization of marriage … marriage regulation to religious institutions. The paper suggests that the greater diversity and decentralization of marriage …

) analysis by studying the impact that learning - about the circumstances of a prospective marriage - by the mediator has on the …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

the property acquired during marriage. Second, because a spouse's rights at death were often very different from those …

This note studies the empirical content of a simple marriage matching model with transferable utility, based on Becker …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

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 …

way by scrutinizing the practice of plural marriage through the lens of economic game theory, exploring the extreme harms … lifetime. The Article concludes that the state has a compelling economic interest in limiting marriage to two people. If … assurance that those who are leaving a marriage are not doing so at their financial peril. With the legalization of polygamy …

The time has come to reform the law governing marriage. In determining the rights and obligations between spouses … arising from marriage, current law does not adequately account for the way in which spousal behaviors and expectations change … over the course of a marriage. With regard to intact marriages, under the existing legal framework the spousal rights and …