model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …. We define marital instability in terms of the consumption gains to remarrying another individual in the same marriage …Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market …

the value of consumption and leisure in the current marriage. We estimate this marital instability measure for every …'s marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich … data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these … relationship between divorce and marital investments is offered in terms of increasing intra-household time consumption …

in the spouse's potential marriage market increases wives' bargaining power in the household while it lowers their …

consistent with a precautionary motive for saving. …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the …. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage competition remains a first-order effect on saving, when another margin of … adjustment to sex ratio imbalance, men's postponement of marriage, is considered. We construct a theoretical and quantitative …

arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single …