An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that … beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as … cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital …

It is well-known that married men earn more than comparable single men, with typical estimates of the male marriage …

marriage to a native spouse facilitates business survival. …

This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

measure of the marriage market by using data from several Censuses. Intermarriage is lower the greater the availability ratio …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …