, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction … market failure that arises from incomplete information on individual paternity. Raising the costs of mating to individuals …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction … market failure that arises from incomplete information on individual paternity. Raising the costs of mating to individuals …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction … market failure that arises from incomplete information on individual paternity. Raising the costs of mating to individuals …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … reproduction in society for the benefit of paternal certainty and biparental investment in offspring. -- Marriage ; Mating …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …

underlie the demise of marriage. -- Mating ; Paternal Uncertainty ; Parental Investment ; Marriage …We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …

Marriage regimes exist in many guises and forms. Economists have studied monogamy and polygyny, the two most commonly …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction … market failure that arises from incomplete information on individual paternity. Raising the costs of mating to individuals …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …