the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively … residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings equations. Results indicate that there are negative effects of the spouse … marriage. However, closer examination shows that only the youngest groups of males and females experience this negative effect …

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences … for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in … early-marrying women over a span of three decades. We find that the practice of child marriage has become much less …