Economists usually assume that bargaining in marriage leads to efficient outcomes. The most convincing rationale for … environments, and that marriage provides such an environment. This paper argues that when a current decision affects future … binding commitments regarding allocation within marriage. To investigate the efficiency of bargaining within marriage when …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …

The purpose of this paper is to outline an economic approach to marriage. The first part contains an introduction to … the economics of a family. The second part analyses the marriage market. The third part discusses the division of … household chores in a household. The fourth part examines marriage as a cooperative or non-cooperative game. The fifth part …

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 …

Marriage contracts are becoming more common in the system of regulators of family relations. The need for such … marriage. The urgency of the analysis of contractual relations of spouses is caused by the expansion of contractual initiative … between husband and wife or persons seeking to settle their property rights before marriage registration because the exercise …

The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a … a bride and a groom. When marriage contracts are incomplete, dowries transfer control rights to the party with the … highest incentives to invest in a marriage. When these transactions are costly however, consanguinity can be a more …