premarital cohabitation and marital instability has weakened for more recent birth and marriage cohorts. Using multiple marital …It has been found that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the likelihood of marital dissolution in … outcomes for a person to account for one source of unobserved heterogeneity, panel models suggest that cohabitation is not …

likely to report specializing on other tasks as well. Given the role couples have in family formation and the labor market …

formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality … important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men …

partners. In Canada, unmarried cohabitation becomes a legal status after one year of relationship. Most provinces automatically … expand couples' rights and responsibilities after several years of cohabitation: some provinces allow cohabiting partners to … men's labour supply and earnings and decreases those of women's. The impact of the marriage-like regime is stronger …

marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …

singulate mean age of marriage (SMAM) in countries of origin was positively related to cohabitation, whereas those originating … immigrated as children or teens, in combination with data from the World Marriage Database, we investigate how residential … partner markets and marriage behavior in countries of origin shape partner choice and choice of union type in Norway. Results …

orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and …