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. …

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

earns more than her husband. We present evidence that this aversion also impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … production. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman becomes more likely to earn more than a randomly chosen man …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …

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 …