Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

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

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

increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …