Two thirds of all Indian women have migrated for marriage, around 300 million women, but little is known about this … its causes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, marriage migration does not contribute to risk sharing. Nor is it driven by …

Why do some men father children outside of marriage but not provide support? Why are some single women willing to have … children outside of marriage when they receive little or no support from unmarried fathers? Why is this behavior especially … common among blacks? To shed light on these questions, we develop and estimate a dynamic equilibrium model of marriage …

We develop and estimate an empirical collective model with endogenous marriage formation, participation, and family … labor supply. Intra-household transfers arise endogenously as the transfers that clear the marriage market. The intra …-household allocation can be recovered from observations on marriage decisions. Introducing the marriage market in the collective model …