more attractive on the marriage market). Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyzes the cohabiting and the marital … that higher wages are mostly due to positive selection – into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis … cohabitation to marriage. Originality/value – This is the first application of non‐parametric matching in a comparative study of …

The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a … a bride and a groom. When marriage contracts are incomplete, dowries transfer control rights to the party with the … highest incentives to invest in a marriage. When these transactions are costly however, consanguinity can be a more …

In this paper we study the relationship between fertility and divorce. The potential endogeneity of fertility in … divorce decisions is explicitly addressed by modelling fertility and divorce jointly. We apply the "timing-of-event" method … (Abbring & van den Berg (2002)) to identify the causal effect of births on the divorce hazard. We show that couples who are …

Marriage in North-Western Transylvania (2nd Half of the 19th Century – Beginning of the 20th Century). External … is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The major events in the family life, such as baptism, marriage … traditional environment; here the social constraints are powerful and a mixed marriage is difficult to be accepted. If we research …