, thus either increasing both spouses' welfare or decreasing both. -- Matching ; intra-household allocations ; Becker …

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … newly formed cohabiting couples. -- intra-household allocations ; matching ; cohabitation ; alimony laws …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … returns or household roles, then there may be mixing in equilibrium where some educated individuals marry uneducated spouses … from schooling is higher than that of men. Moreover, women's household time obligations have declined over time, raising …