-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …

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

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 …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …