insurance to their members. Unique panel data providing information on income, assets, gifts, loans, consumption, marriage, and … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the "marriage ideal" is determined by the median income in an individual's local reference group. After …

compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since … 1960. However, both trends were already present between 1900 and 1960, during which time marriage became increasingly … one demographic. First, men's improving labor market prospects made them more attractive as marriage partners to women …