Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

The family life courses of immigrants and their descendants, particularly intermarriage and the timing of marriage and … of cohabitation in the family lives of these subpopulations. Choosing cohabitation as first union may, for instance …

than those married. We expected to find fewer differences between cohabitation and marriage in countries where cohabitation … is widespread. Correspondingly, we find that the difference between marriage and cohabitation is largest in Russia …

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …