suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

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 …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …

The liberalization of divorce laws has reduced the commitment value of marriage and household specialization. I examine … how the homemaking provision in family law that gives recognition to the contribution of homemakers in marriage in the … the property rights of homemakers in marital property division at divorce, in inducing women to invest in their marriage …

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 as well as for a precautionary savings motive …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria differing not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …