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 …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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 …

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 …