This paper discusses the interest in and politics surrounding government's using welfare reform legislation to carve out a stronger role in promoting marriage. It examines trends in family formation, their impact on society, and the effect of single parenting, divorce, and step-parenting on child well-being. The paper also looks at the treatment of marriage in current government programs, new s...

at the beginning, the marriage portion or dowry was considered as the price for selling the wife to the husband. the marriage portion was changed its nature as a gift by the advent of the divine religions and codification of laws. in modern custom of iran, the islamic concept of marriage portion has been completely changed and is no more considered as a gift, but it is security in marriage and ...

getting married with relatives is considered as the salient kinds of marriage in iran and it is of a particular position in the culture of ordinary people. among the different kinds of marriage of relatives, the cousin marriage is of the most frequency.  the main question of the present research is linked to” the sort of the view point and behavioral status of iranian concerning the marriage of...

This paper investigates how the control and devolution of productive assets are allocated among husband and wife. Theory predicts that bargaining power within marriage depends on the division of assets upon divorce (exit option) and on control over assets during marriage (noncooperative marriage). In empirical applications, bargaining power is typically proxied by variables such as dowry paymen...

The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in generat...

In simple random sampling, there is an equal chance of selection for each unit in the population. However, there are some practical situations where this might not be ideal. We consider the case of length-biased sampling, whereby the chance of selection of a unit is proportional to the length of the unit, by which the length-biased density is defined. Specifically we consider the case of a cont...

There is extensive evidence that married people are, on average, healthier than their unmarried counterparts. It is unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into marriage by instrumenting marital status...

This exploratory study examined mothers' and fathers' reports of time involvement in their school-age children's care and academic activities. The study also explored the relationship between parents' socioeconomic status (SES) variables (age, education, income, work hours, and length of marriage) and their relative involvement with children. Mother and father dyads from 34 two-parent Navajo (D...

PURPOSE The study was conducted to assess the marital status and fertility in adults with epilepsy. METHODS The study group consisted of 240 subjects with epilepsy aged 15 and above, Unmarried males (m) 55, unmarried females (f) 73 and married males 48, married females 64. Data was collected according to standard protocol regarding age, sex, age at marriage and onset of seizure, effect of epi...