marriage characteristics that are associated with inter-spousal communication. The paper presents first empirical evidence … critical role in marriage as it helps maintain quality relationship between spouses and directly contributes to marital …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

inequality between couples. …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of marriage regulation on the migratory behavior of individuals using … the history of the liberalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. Because the approval of same-sex marriage … allows homosexuals access to legal rights and social benefits, marriage becomes more attractive relative to singlehood or …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …

Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …

any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …