Christianity. The paper takes a historical and contemporary look at how religious traditions affect marriage, using a modified … contractual lens, which enables us to theorize about long-run marriage and divorce rates. …

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 … affect the educational structure of marriage: it made generally unstable hypogamous couples (women marrying less educated …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. -- Divorce ; marriage ; availability …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …. -- Arranged marriage ; dowry ; bride price ; female literacy ; marriage markets ; stable marriage allocation …