well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …

Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production …

. These include cohabitation prior to marriage, total marital fertility, education of husband and wife, prior marriage of … shows both that they profit substantially from marriage in many ways and that they do better the more specialized, or … "traditional," the marriage (Nock, 1998). The last fifty years have worked dramatic changes in the options available to women, as …

This paper investigates the relationship between the probability of divorce and marriage specific investments. As these …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …