This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in which the gains from marriage are …

modeling the retirement behaviour of partnered men and women. First, a single risk hazard model provides insights into the …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …

, then home-ownership can be seen as providing the necessary "collateral" for this contract. As easier divorce and paternity … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly … divorce while providing consumption insurance to their partner. This, in turn, increases the value of marriage for those able …