beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages …