Posts tagged with 'marriage'

How the rise of industrial robots affects family behavior

Men's 'economic value' on the marriage market has fallen with growing labor market uncertainty

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

Teenage daughters as a risk factor for divorce

Sullen exchanges, inexplicable silences and broken curfews can be part of life for parents of teenagers, but could this period […]

What a difference a day makes

Family stability is a prerequisite for a number of social outcomes that policy makers care about, not the least being […]

Reducing early marriage to boost female labor market participation in Senegal

Senegal is a country with large gender disparities in education and career opportunities. Early marriage and low age at first […]

Living with a stranger: The “Retired Husband Syndrome” in Japan

Retirement is not just a major turning point in the life of a working man, but it often affects his […]

Some children stabilize marriage, others don’t

 From an economic perspective, children can be seen as an investment of the parents to increase the value of the […]

Higher bride prices reduce fertility – evidence from Senegal

The bride price payment is a key element of the marriage contract in many sub-Saharan African countries, and particularly in […]

Extending paid maternity leave makes no sense economically

Paid maternity leave has become more and more popular over the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the […]

Have the benefits from marriage changed over the past decades? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Shelly Lundberg and Robert […]