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 …

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 … suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …

is strong enough to cancel out the poor match effect. -- divorce ; marriage dissolution ; marital instability ; marriage … 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 …

relationship between the mean age at first marriage for women, female labor force participation and the crude divorce rate. We find …This paper examines the impact of trends in female labor force participation on crude divorce rate in Macedonia for the … effects and the risk of divorce. In light of the changing demographics of divorce patterns, we investigate the relationship …

After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been … a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong … quantitative support was found for the remaining mechanisms. -- divorce ; wage inequality …

This paper surveys some of the main strands in the recent literature on the economics of divorce, with a focus on U ….S. studies. We begin with a discussion of changes over time in the divorce rate and the widening gap in marital instability by … socioeconomic status. We review the role of age at entry into first marriage, including recent analyses that find strikingly …

value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

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 …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been … a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong …