This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in … documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. Controlling …, reflecting the increasing incidence of divorce and the expansion of female labor market participation. In particular, towards the … attributed to the gradual erosion of the perception of marriage as a sort of safe asset. Our results therefore suggest that the …

there have been substantial changes in the long-term trends in marriage and divorce within the 20- 24 age group since 1988. … marriage is fast becoming a defunct institution, evidence derived from annual March CPS (1964-95) is used to demonstrate that …

endogeneity of fertility on marriage behavior is taken into account by modeling fertility and divorce jointly. We apply the …In this paper we study the relationship between fertility behavior and the process of marriage duration. The potential … ”timing-of-event” method (Abbring & van den Berg (2002)) to identify the causal effect of births on the divorce hazard. We show …

In this paper we provide an empirical investigation of the determinants of divorce in the Danish marriage market. The … cohabitation in the divorce equation. Second, it discusses more thouroghly the effects of other covariates on the divorce hazard. …

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the …

We study the role of education as insurance against a bad marriage in light of changing divorce laws during the 1970s …. We build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply … education in divorce than marriage market signaling benefits of education especially for women post divorce reform. (Copyright …