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 paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous ﾖ that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …

of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change …Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing … change in divorce law. Suicide rates are used as a quantifiable measure of well-being, albeit one that focuses on the extreme …

experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for …

The practice of child marriage is ubiquitous in developing countries, where one in three girls is married before the … age of 18. Although most developing countries have a legal minimum age of marriage, in practice marriage age is determined … and marriage behaviour in a setting with weak law enforcement. We do this by administering a randomised video …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with …

live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …