even more noteworthy contradiction is the negative relationship between years of marriage and infidelity; this suggests … that marriage longevity is positively related to that of match quality of the relationship. …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual savings behavior with intra-marriage financial distributions … and uncertainty about marriage and divorce. Spouses paying these distributions experience diseconomies of marriage; the … spouses who receive them benefit from economies of marriage. We show that higher likelihoods of marriage and divorce are …

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 …

who ruin their lives completely. It is also to be examined whether any safeguards can be built at the time of marriage to …

-sectional differences between cohabiting and married couples. To this end, we build a two-period model of marriage and cohabitation with …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …