example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …

How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking. …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor … own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of marriage and divorce, which …

measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …