-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner … that institutional factors significantly impact economic performance by affecting marriage, family size, and the …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is … that removing the asymmetric information about sexual safety accelerates marriage and pregnancy for safe respondents, and … and accelerated marriage and pregnancy, increasing the probabilities of marriage and pregnancy by 26 and 27 percent for …

parents are not has increased. This increase is consistent with an asymmetric information model of marriage (Murphy 1999). The …

This essay is an updated, expanded and revised version of the second half of Divorce Rates, Marriage Rates, and the … declining marriage rates …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous ﾖ that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …