index. Results indicate that for immigrants intermarriage is indeed related to less specialization as is better education …. Natives, on the other hand, show different patterns: for them the likelihood to specialize increases with intermarriage. This …

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

An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …

We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor … female wages. We estimate that the share of marriage surplus appropriated by the man increases with his wage and that the …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

the time to first marriage. The estimates support the theory, indicating that risk aversion significantly affects time to … marriage is examined using survival analysis. A search model predicts that, the more risk averse the individual, the shorter … marriage, with more risk averse respondents marrying sooner than their more risk loving counterparts. Within-family analyses …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …