educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. … decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability …

educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. … decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability …

educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. … decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability …

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … newly formed cohabiting couples. -- intra-household allocations ; matching ; cohabitation ; alimony laws …We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative …

were married. Cohabitees lose less even after matching on observable characteristics including age and children. This … they are more likely to live with other adults, particularly their family, following separation, even after matching on age … marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …

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 … formation and does so differently depending on education, sex ratios and parent status. CLM reduces in-couple residence, and …