133238 20240410085328.0 doi 10.1007/s11150-020-09493-z sideral 119001 ART-2020-119001 eng Bellido, Héctor Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1065-1304 Will you marry me? It depends (on the business cycle) 2020 This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and the marriage rate, using a panel data of 30 European countries for 1991 to 2018. Our results point to a pro-cyclical behavior of marriage rates, which holds after controlling for country-level observed and unobserved characteristics. We detect possible different responses of the marriage rate to the business cycle, after considering a wide range of country-level regulation affecting couples (taxation, property division, informal relationship regulations, and reproduction). Our findings suggest an important role of the cost/gain of marriage versus cohabitation/singlehood. Supplemental analysis reveals gender differences in the relationship between the business cycle and the marriage rate, depending on the previous legal marital status of the individuals. We provide additional evidence on the consequences of the pro-cyclical response of marriage rate by exploring variations in the stock of married/unmarried individuals. Results show a clear negative association between the business cycle and the stock of married individuals, but no negative response is found for the stock of those living as unmarried couples. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 1.559 2020 ECONOMICS 234 / 375 = 0.624 2020 Q3 T2 0.791 2020 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 2020 Q1 Economics and Econometrics 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Marcén, Miriam Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1944-4790 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 19 (2020), 551–579 Review of Economics of the Household REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD 1569-5239 508642 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/133238/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1516645 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/133238/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:133238 articulos driver 2024-04-10-08:36:06 ARTICLE