-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …

following the legalization of same-sex marriage. Both partners in these couples were more likely to be employed, to work full … time, and to work longer hours. Marriage equality was also associated with a decrease in self-employment and within …-household specialization among same-sex couples. Additional evidence is then provided in order to investigate whether these changes were driven …

positive assortative matching in the aristocratic marriage market with lump-sum transfers, where cash-constraints are placed on …

developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively … related to the size of the group due to frictions in the marriage market: Search costs for co-ethnic spouses are larger the …

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

Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social …. Given prevailing gender gaps in height and earnings, positive sorting implies it will be rare for women to be taller than … empirical application, we show that simulations which sort couples positively on permanent earnings can largely replicate 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 …