. In each theory we analyze how a reduction in the cost of divorce affects the propensity to divorce for couples at any … individual marriage and divorce certificate data from the US. We exploit variation in the timing of the adoption of unilateral …We analyze the role of the marriage contract. We first formalize three prominent hypotheses on why people marry …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

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 …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …

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 …

divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage …There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US …

subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. -- Divorce ; marriage ; availability …: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

marriage which exactly offsets their higher prospective divorce settlement. When remarriage is possible, more complex effects … could occur: the reform typically alters divorce probabilities and it may affect the total surplus generated by marriage …We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting, divorce and remarriage. Match quality for each couple is …

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …. -- marriage ; polygyny ; monogamy ; divorce ; human capital ; political economy …