Economists have been equating money and marriage ever since Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker published his seminal paper "A Theory of Marriage" in two parts in 1973 and 1974--also, not coincidentally, in the Journal of Political Economy.

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And when I showed them how I was going to put prints on a sheet of paper it was a marriage made in heaven.

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Most, (72%) disagreed with the suggestion that marriage was just another piece of paper and more than three quarters (76%) disagreed with the idea that it was better not to get married at all - and almost half (46%) agreed that married couples divorced too quickly without trying to make it work.

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The consultative paper produced by Jack Straw, the home secretary, comes out strongly for marriage.

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The paper also indicates that the dynamic of a wife earning more than her husband can strain the marriage, increasing divorce rates.

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"Bergoglio's stance against gay marriage, however, predictably earned him the ire" of gay rights groups in in Chile, the paper says.

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