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 …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …