relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a "poor-match" effect … evidence of the existence of this effect: women who delay marriage disproportionately make unconventional matches, which are … to first marriage has been accompanied by higher proportions of women entering marriage with 16 years of schooling or …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … is strong enough to cancel out the poor match effect. -- divorce ; marriage dissolution ; marital instability ; marriage …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of …, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time. …

no-fault divorce reforms reducing the security offered by marriage, in particular for women. …

-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 …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …