) analysis by studying the impact that learning - about the circumstances of a prospective marriage - by the mediator has on the …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage … experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A possible …

This paper explores how marriage prospects affect female human capital investments. I exploit a South African legal … variation in marriage propensity. The findings show that these marital gains are generated through a shift in intra …-household bargaining power rather than improving marriage match quality …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children …

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …

In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during …, in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries age of marriage was much less correlated across Western … countries. I propose a simple model where age of marriage is a function of search frictions and a structural change of the …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …