The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

, without changes in marriage, fertility, psychological distress, or household consumption. …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to … marry, now face the same marriage incentives that different-sex couples faced for decades. We highlight marriage incentives … affecting older couples, who have rarely been studied. Using the American Community Survey, we estimate decreases in marriage …

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …