also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

- into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization …, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage. … more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting …

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

We examine changes in marriage and earnings patterns across four cohorts born between 1936 and 1975, using data from a … men and women, marriage has become increasingly positively associated with education and earnings potential. We compare … ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect (FE) estimates of the earnings differential associated with marriage. We find …

This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our …

is also consistent with the theory that marriage market participants' choices are affected by the prevailing sex ratio …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

cohabitation over marriage; they are less likely to have their first child within marriage; and their own partnerships and …