Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce, and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect …