In the context of calls for more nuanced understanding of marriage as a dynamic institution, this paper addresses a gap … is some evidence that this is the result of changing ideologies towards companionate marriage but there is also evidence …

marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …