division of labor within a household can render a marriage more durable. On the other hand, spouses that are dissimilar in … toward certain activities to the marriage that reflects compatible preferences for joint consumption of household public …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in which the gains from marriage are …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

equilibrium limited-commitment collective framework that allows for marriage both within and across birth cohorts. Using Panel … within- and across-cohort marital matching. Our model replicates the bivariate marriage distribution by age, and explains … some of the most salient life-cycle patterns of marriage, divorce, remarriage, and time allocation behavior. We use our …

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 … enforcement outside of marriage have reduced the relative strength of the marital contract, the division of assets, particularly …