The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage … penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by considering two potential spouses who … play a marriage proposal game. At the end of the game they may get married, live together without formal marriage, or split …

joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and … simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples …

This paper analyzes the effects of an income splitting system on marriage partners. The focus is on the time allocation …, on investment in marriage-specific human capital and on the distribution of income within the family. Two insights are … family has been started or not. After marriage, joint taxation increases redistribution among family members. Second …

higher-ability individuals more picky in the marriage market, which translates into a higher degree of economic homogamy in …

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

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …