Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2017
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …