The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and … of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

Why have so many young men left the U.S. workforce? This paper develops a model in which men earn a marriage market … return on past employment. It hypothesizes that this return declined as gender-role-specialized marriage became a less … unilateral divorce regime transitions across U.S. states in the 1970s. These shocks reduce marriage and labor-force participation …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …