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 …

We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some …This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as …

This paper presents a model of lifetime utility maximisation in which expectations of future marital transitions play a … should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

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 …