polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic inequality. For Germany, little is known about actual patterns of … marriage formation along educational lines. Our empirical analysis for Germany shows that educational assortative mating has …. -- Assortative marriage ; Microcensus ; education ; log-linear models …

of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals …

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …