This paper considers how the rise of remarriage and premarital cohabitation affect the trends and patterns of educational homogamy in Britain. Using repeated cross-sectional data taken from the General Household Surveys, which cover a thirty years period, I show that the strength of educational homogamy has declined for remarriages and for marriages that began as cohabiting unions. The decline ...

CERTAIN BASIC COST FACTORS must be continuously recognized in analysis of the costs of the old-age and survivors insurance program. These factors include: (a) population; (b) mortality; (c) family composition; (d) number of years of credited employment prior to qualification for benefits; (e) remarriage of widowed beneficiaries; (f) employment of widowed beneficiaries, older children, and aged;...

Until 2004, divorce in Chile was illegal and separated individuals were unable to remarry. This paper examines who benefits or looses from the option of exiting a marriage and remarrying. Using longitudinal survey data, we first document the effects of the reform on couples formation and separation. We then use this variation in the data to structurally estimate and validate a dynamic equilibri...

This article explores the remarkable shift in marriage and divorce practices that has occurred in the last third of this century in the United States. Initially, information is presented on trends in divorce and remarriage; commonalities and differences between family patterns in the United States and in other industrialized nations are discussed. The author then identifies some of the factors ...