This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …