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

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …

What determines bargaining power in marriage? This paper argues that wage rates, not earnings, determine well-being at … to market work at the threat point. In the divorce threat model, for example, a wife who does not work for pay while … married might do so following a divorce; hence, her bargaining power would be related to her wage rate, not to her earnings …

This paper investigates the application of the three-parameter, Coale-McNeil marriage model and some related hyper …-parameterized specifications to data on the first marriage patterns of American women. Because the model is parametric, it can be used to estimate … the parameters of the marriage process, free of censoring bias, for cohorts that have yet to complete their first marriage …

-term relationships, including spouses' attributes, marriage entry and stability, and the division of household labor. Drawing on two …) short men marry and divorce at lower rates than others and (4) both men's height relative to other men and their height … an enduring height hierarchy among men on in the spousal marriage market. Further, they indicate that at least one …