higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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. …

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A … the EMP and its sources must therefore be sought in other factors. -- European Marriage Pattern ; nuptiality ; household …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …