cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both … theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the …

household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role. -- Fertility ; marriage ; cohabitation ; switching … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …