Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … own wages. The evidence supports the idea that higher male inequality increases the option value for single women to …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow …

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … Employment Survey. The evidence presented here suggests that the likelihood of marital breakdown varies with the age at marriage …