marriage predict that males with higher wage rates have a greater gain from marriage and are therefore more likely to marry …. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …

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

. We find that the effect of having a father who had a previous childless marriage is similar to the effect of fathers' MPF …

does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of …, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates. There are two broad sets of … traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has decreased relative to cohabitation, which offers …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …