Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the … labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the … labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …