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

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

are taller than Asians, and we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

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 …

(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 …