investigate the relationship between marriage norms and the internal migrations of young men in age to marry. Based on empirical … ethnic groups without marriage payments. We interpret these results as evidence for the fact that men migrate to accumulate … strategies are implemented by the less advantaged males in their origin marriage market (latter-borns or from lower social class …

wishes to wed. In this paper, we use quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize the practice of abduction marriage … with the hypothesis that men often use abduction to improve bargaining power in marriage negotiations and reduce the size … - increase the probability of abduction marriage only for women from ethnic groups that traditionally exchange a bride price. …

Using data from 18 countries, we investigate the effects of child marriage bans on infant and under-5 mortality. We use …," calculated based on child marriage prevalence and marriage age prior to the ban. We find that child marriage bans reduced infant … age at first marriage and birth. …

We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and … (initiated by women) is an option, in an equilibrium with male marriage premium married men have a higher reservation wage than …

are also 1.8% more likely to graduate from upper secondary school and have more stable marriage market outcomes as adults …