than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

. Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage market. However, we … demonstrate that higher female inequality in the marriage market reduces polygyny. Moreover, we show that female inequality …

than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner … that institutional factors significantly impact economic performance by affecting marriage, family size, and the …