standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …

, while also examining reporting differences in father involvement by parent gender. Data on 4,224 mother-father pairs are … than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …

in families, and why? In examining these issues I also explore household survey data from the United States. This …

in families, and why? In examining these issues I also explore household survey data from the United States. This …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

also find no such effect of gender-neutral crimes (such as theft and robbery) on the likelihood of early marriage of girls … marriage-that is, marriage before the legal age of marriage of girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to … from any sexual violence. However, there would be no similar effect of perceived crime in the locality on the marriage of …