marriage and opportunities for investment in human capital. For given preferences, a decline in the marriage rate necessarily … nonmarital birth rates, as well as in the share of nonmarital births, arose primarily from changes in marriage behavior, not from …

An overlapping generations model of marriage and divorce is constructed to analyze family structure and … intergenerational mobility. Agents differ by sex, marital status, and human capital. Single agents meet in a marriage market and decide …

reduces the marriage penalty for single heads with incomes below $20,000. It eliminates the middle class parent penalty: the … effective at lowering marginal tax rates and marriage penalties. …

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … woman’s marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the marriage ideal is determined by the median income in an individual’s local reference group. After controlling …