, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply …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 …

calibration, we find that with the option to postpone marriage, the response of the aggregate savings rate to the rising sex ratio …Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the … male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort explains 60 percent of the rise of China's aggregate household savings rate …

less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage …There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US …