In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using … status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is … status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational …