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

We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic … children more or less equally between them. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between fertility and …

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production … when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will … on the divorce rate. In a separate-property jurisdiction, it will encourage marriage, and induce more married women to …

In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production … when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will … on the divorce rate. In a separate-property jurisdiction, it will encourage marriage, and induce more married women to …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

Estimating saving and fertility simultaneously by the VAR method, we find that social security cover has a positive … effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was …, the negative effect of social security on fertility tends to erode the system’s own contributory base, because it reduces …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …