This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and … socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and …

The ancient custom of dowry, that is, bride-to-groom marriage payments, remains ubiquitous in many contemporary … 1986-2007. Utilizing variation in firstborn gender and dowry amounts across marriage markets, the paper finds that the … prospect of higher dowry payments at the time of a daughter's marriage leads parents to save more in advance. The higher …

-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …