after accounting for the impact of child penalties. While 2 ⁄3 of the total effect of cohabitation is due to partnered women … having higher fertility than unpartnered women, an income penalty of 5% is directly due to cohabitation, and not due to … children. Cohabitation also reduces women's propensity to work evenings and weekends, and to hold a second job. The effects are …

discrimination against unmarried couples, a couple will marry only if marriage serves as a commitment device which facilitates …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

forms such as civil unions and cohabitation allows couples to choose alternatives to marriage, which in turn weakens the … benefits of marriage. Lower dependency allows greater voice, and lowers the cost of exiting a marriage. The diversity of family … institution of marriage. Alternatively, the divorce rate in Japan is low compared to the U.S. and Europe because dependency …

-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with …In Western Europe and the US, the last couple of decades have witnessed a large increase in the new forms of marriages …, usually called quasi-marriages, like cohabitation. Today in many European countries more than 15% of all couples are …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …