Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market …? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a … model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …

We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in …

examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …

related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These … variables include sex ratios (and exogenous parameters that influence sex ratios) as well as legal changes related to marriage … and divorce. A reexamination of the determinants of the price elasticity of demand includes an explanation for gender gaps …

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting … supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates. Countervailing … effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most probably …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … analyze the effect on post-divorce outcomes. Our estimates show that joint custody significantly reduces divorce and female … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …

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