Economics_of_Marriage

Economics of Marriage The marriage expectations of 1898 are not a far cry from the worries of women in the present. In the past, there were many concerns of the economic value of a wife, whether it be abusing the wife’s free labor, or marrying into a rich family for the sake of money. As times have slowly changed, the argument has not. The women are still doing much of the non-market work, but now it depends on her bargaining strength. During the last decade, women have become concerned with the economical impacts on behavior, ranging from the intra-household distribution power to the distribution of wealth by gender at marriage. This brings me to the focus of this paper, I will discuss whether or not it is economically advantageous for a woman to become part of the marriage market. When men and women fall in love, relative incomes are not the only things factored into whether or not to marry, but they do play an important role. There are costs and benefits that help people make the marriage decision, such as income and assets, time, and intimacy. There are also tax and health benefits implications for not getting married. Likewise, there marriage, one, production, married, costs, women, people, work, utility, men, consumption, wife, time, marry, market, externality, positive, person, partner, earnings, advantage, whether, same, person’s, economic, benefits, assets, negative, household, externalities, woman, tasks, should, scale, man, example, economies, divorce, distribution, capital, being, situation, potential, off, model, living, likely, job, instance, increase