We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only …

ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to … theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage …

. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification motive is enhanced for some utility functions when a state's level of … marriage as well as for a precautionary attitude towards risk. - Consumption Insurance ; Marriage …

means and volatilities of partners' incomes are also derived from the theory and tested. -- Consumption Insurance ; Marriage …This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … negatively correlated with her own) as it raises her expected utility. The presence of love, however, complicates the picture. If …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …