in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … cohabitation; women lost some weight in the first year, men gained some weight after four or more years of separation. Divorce … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …

Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …

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

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market … married mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using …