The institution of marriage

Abstract

Institution of marriage, Paternity uncertainty, Parental investment, D10, J12, J13,

The Role of Paternity Presumption and Custodial Rights for Understanding Marriage Patterns

“…3 A number of recent papers in economics have formalized the link between paternity certainty, paternal investments and growth. In Bethmann and Kvasnicka (2011), marriage is the socially engineered regulation of mating costs. Higher cost reduces promiscuity and therefore boosts paternity certainty and male investment in offspring.…”

World War II, Missing Men and Out of Wedlock Childbearing

“…These differences in constraints and opportunities faced by women and men have inspired economic research on various aspects of marriage and non‐marital fertility. With respect to the former, a recent study has assigned them a pivotal role in a microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage (Bethmann and Kvasnicka, 2011) and, with regard to non‐marital fertility, prominent economic models of out of wedlock childbearing rely heavily on them. For example, Willis (1999) derives a general equilibrium model in which low sex ratios cause some men to forgo marriage to father as many children as possible out of wedlock with different women who subsequently raise their children with little paternal support.…”

Efectos de los ingresos del hogar, educación de la mujer y participación laboral femenina sobre la fecundidad ecuatoriana

“…El matrimonio, como institución, es muy importante en términos de fecundidad, pues reduce las asimetrías de información a la que se enfrentan hombres y mujeres a la hora de procrear. La asimetría de información vendría dada por el hecho de la facilidad de reconocimiento de la descendencia de las mujeres, mientras que los hombres lo hacen respecto de su capacidad reproductiva (Bethmann y Kvasnicka, 2011). Por tanto, con una disminución de las tasas de matrimonio, las tasas de fecundidad se verían afectadas en el largo plazo (Gutiérrez y Domenech, 2008).…”