couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how … experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a … growing body of longitudinal research links mobility decision-making to subsequent moving behaviour, most studies focus solely …

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general …

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in …

either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within occupation. To distinguish between these …, the difference should be decreasing in percent male. Under the search cost mechanism, the difference should be increasing … in percent male. Our results are consistent with the search cost explanation, especially in occupations with greater …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in … generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …