We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …

match and an integral equation of one's optimal opportunity of marriage in life. We also find a series of theoretical … their marital timing decisions. According to the analysis, we propose two Hypotheses and test them with the first marriage … than town individuals, which in turn marry later than countryside people and the timing of first marriage is affected by …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

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 …

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 …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability ….We suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …