We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …

This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the … trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and spousal decision-making after a marriage has …

marriage characteristics that are associated with inter-spousal communication. The paper presents first empirical evidence … critical role in marriage as it helps maintain quality relationship between spouses and directly contributes to marital …