Contents:
Introduction
Shoshana A. Grossbard
PART I EXPLAINING MARRIAGE AND RELATED OUTCOMES
A . Marriage and Cohabitation
1. Gary S. Becker (1973), ‘A Theory of Marriage: Part I’, Journal
of Political Economy, 81 (4), July–August, 813–46
2. Gary S. Becker (1974), ‘A Theory of Marriage: Part II’, Journal
of Political Economy, 82 (2, Part 2), March–April, S11–S26
3. Michael C. Keeley (1977), ‘The Economics of Family Formation’,
Economic Inquiry, XV (2), April, 238–50
4. Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith and William Darity Jr.
(2009), ‘Shedding “Light” on Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade
on Marriage for Black Females’, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 72 (1), October, 30–50
5. Kerwin Kofi Charles and Ming Ching Luoh (2010), ‘Male
Incarceration, the Marriage Market, and Female Outcomes’, Review of
Economics and Statistics, 92 (3), August, 614–27
6. M.V. Lee Badgett, Gary J. Gates and Natalya C. Maisel (2008),
‘Registered Domestic Partnerships among Gay Men and Lesbians: The
Role of Economic Factors’, Review of Economics of the Household, 6
(4), December, 327–46 [
B. Matching Patterns
7. Amyra Grossbard (1976), ‘An Economic Analysis of Polygyny: The
Case of Maiduguri’, Current Anthropology, 17 (4), December,
701–7
8. Eugene Choo and Aloysius Siow (2006), ‘Who Marries Whom and
Why’, Journal of Political Economy, 114 (1), February, 175–201
9. Günter J. Hitsch, Ali Hortaçsu and Dan Ariely (2010), ‘Matching
and Sorting in Online Dating’, American Economic Review, 100 (1),
March, 130–63
10. Pierre-André Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent
Quintana-Domeque (2012), ‘Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and
Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market’, Journal of
Political Economy, 120 (4), August, 659–95
C. Brideprice and Dowry
11. Martin Bronfenbrenner (1971), ‘A Note on the Economics of the
Marriage Market’, Journal of Political Economy, 79 (6),
November–December, 1424–25
12. Siwan Anderson (2007), ‘The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice’,
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21 (4), Fall, 151–74
D. Divorce and Divorce-Related Laws
13. Anne Laferrère (2001), ‘Marriage Settlements’, Scandinavian
Journal of Economics, 103 (3), September, 485–504
14. Evelyn L. Lehrer (2003), ‘The Economics of Divorce’, in
Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman (ed.), Marriage and the Economy:
Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Chapter 3,
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 55–74
15. Justin Wolfers (2006), ‘Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise
Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results’, American Economic
Review, 96 (5), December, 1802–820
E. Who Benefits from Polygamy?
16. Barbara R. Bergmann (1995), ‘Becker’s Theory of the Family:
Preposterous Conclusions’, Feminist Economics, 1 (1), 141–50
17. Eric D. Gould, Omer Moav and Avi Simhon (2008), ‘The Mystery of
Monogamy’, American Economic Review, 98 (1), March, 333–57
PART II CONSEQUENCES OF MARRIAGE AND MARRIAGE MARKET CONDITIONS
A. Marriage and Labor Supply
18. Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman (1988),
‘Women’s Labor Supply and Marital Choice’, Journal of Political
Economy, 96 (6), December, 1294–302
19. P.F. Apps and R. Rees (1996), ‘Labour Supply, Household
Production and Intra-family Welfare Distribution’, Journal of
Public Economics, 60 (2), May, 199–219
20. Pierre-André Chiappori, Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix (2002),
‘Marriage Market, Divorce Legislation, and Household Labor Supply’,
Journal of Political Economy, 110 (1), February, 37–72
21. Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (2007),
‘Cohort-level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force
Participation’, Review of Economics of the Household, 5 (3),
September, 249–78
B. Marriage and Household Production
22. Shoshana Amyra Grossbard, J. Ignacio Gimenez Nadal and José
Alberto Molina (2014), ‘Racial Intermarriage and Household
Production’, Review of Behavioral Economics, 1 (4), 295–347
23. Luise Görges (2015), ‘The Power of Love: A Subtle Driving-Force
for Unegalitarian Labor Division?’, Review of Economics of the
Household, 13 (1), March, 163–92
C. Marriage and Wages
24. Sanders Korenman and David Neumark (1991), ‘Does Marriage
Really Make Men More Productive?’, Journal of Human Resources, 26
(2), Spring, 282–307
25. Avner Ahituv and Robert I. Lerman (2011), ‘Job Turnover, Wage
Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?’, Review of
Economics of the Household, 9 (2), June, 221–49
D. Marriage, Consumption and Wellbeing
26. Marjorie B. McElroy (1990), ‘The Empirical Content of
Nash-Bargained Household Behavior’, Journal of Human Resources, XXV
(4), Autumn, 559–83
27. Duncan Thomas (1990), ‘Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An
Inferential Approach’, Journal of Human Resources, XXV (4), Autumn,
635–64
28. Shelly J. Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales
(1997), ‘Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? Evidence from
the United Kingdom Child Benefit’, Journal of Human Resources,
XXXII (3), 463–80
29. Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (2006), ‘Bargaining in the
Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress’, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 121 (1), February, 267–88
30. Masanori Kuroki (2014), ‘The Effect of Sex Ratios on Suicide’,
Health Economics, 23 (12), December, 1502–10
E. Marriage, Household Finances and Savings
31. Frances Woolley (2003), ‘Control over Money in Marriage’, in
Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman (ed.), Marriage and the Economy:
Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Chapter 5,
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 105–28
32. Michèle Tertilt (2005), ‘Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings’,
Journal of Political Economy, 113 (6), December, 1341–71
33. Wataru Kureishi and Midori Wakabayashi (2013), ‘What Motivates
Single Women to Save? The Case of Japan’, Review of Economics of
the Household, 11 (4), December, 681–704
34. Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Benjamin R. Karney and Amy J. Rauer
(2015), ‘Marriage and Economic Well-being at Older Ages’, Review of
Economics of the Household, 13 (1), March, 1–35
F. Marriage and Education
35. Jeanne Lafortune (2013), ‘Making Yourself Attractive:
Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the
Marriage Market’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5
(2), April, 151–78
G. Marriage and Fertility
36. George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen and Michael L. Katz (1996),
‘An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States’,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXI (2), May, 277–317
Index
Edited by Shoshana A. Grossbard, Professor of Economics, San Diego State University, US
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