introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply and … home production. We characterize the steadystate equilibrium when exogenous divorce is the only source of risk. We study … female wages. We estimate the expected share of marriage surplus appropriated by each spouse as a function of wages. The …

and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …