Household Behavior and the Marriage Market There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the possibility of using revealed preference data on household time allocations to determine the manner in which spouses i...

The quality of spouse a woman is willing to marry varies significantly over her lifecycle, first increasing rapidly then falling more slowly as she ages. Men have a similar but less pronounced pattern. We document this and other facts on the quality of chosen spouses depending on the age of marriage. We then interpret these facts in the framework of a non-stationary sequential search model, whi...

the aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of love styles in the relationship between personality traits and couples’ marital adjustment. the research method is correlational which was carried out using structural equation modeling (sem). the research population comprised all the couples referring to the family court in tabriz. 280 subjects were selected from this populati...

Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement marriage fertility, rise nonmarital births, partnership instability, repartnering

This article statistically analyzes quantitative data from numerous sources in order to assess changes in marriage patterns, family structure, and rates of social mobility during the period from 1282 to 1494. During this period, three systems of social stratification coexisted -- wealth, political office, and age of family -- but these contending status systems were not consistent in their rank...

Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women’s age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a “poor-match” effect emerging as the biological clock begins to tick. In analyses of t...

Among the Karo Batak of North Sumatra, Indonesia, marriages between matrilateral cross cousins (impal) are the ideal, yet rarely occur. Further, ethnographic accounts reveal a stated aversion to impal marriage. These observations are consistent with Westermarck’s “negative imprinting” hypothesis if impal are cosocialized. We present analyses of postmarital residence patterns from two studies of...

Background: Over the last three decades, China has undergone profound socioeconomic transformations and opening to the outside world. These transformations have induced significant changes and variations in sexual norms and behaviors and in the social context of sexual partnering. Age at marriage is increasing; premarital and extramarital sex are becoming increasingly common; and the demand and...

We use data from pooled 2000-2004 Current Population Surveys to examine generational differences in cohabitation and marriage among men and women ages 20-34 in the U.S. Consistent with our expectation and in line with assimilation theory, levels of cohabitation rise across succeeding generations. In contrast, generational differences in marriage follow a curvilinear pattern such that those in t...