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

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which … polygyny, we introduce bargaining and strategic bequest and discuss their implication for the equilibrium of the marriage …

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 …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption …. We define a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable …. Stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We characterize stable marriage …

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. …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …