We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … just improve the allocation of risk at the individual level, but also have implications for the allocation of risk at the …

Why has polygyny, marriage of a man to multiple women, common in most societies throughout history, almost disappeared … income have led to the rise of monogamy. A general equilibrium model of the marriage market illustrates that the spread of …

experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results corroborate the theory's implication that marriage and …I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due … earnings and marriage penalties …