marriage regulation to religious institutions. The paper suggests that the greater diversity and decentralization of marriage …This paper, written for a Conference on Multi-Tiered Marriage, explores what the State role in regulating marriage is …, and should be, given the growing set of alternative marriage options, and the greater decentralization of marriage …

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 …