manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets, making use of what we label constrained job search. The optimal … strategy entails different reservation wages for different men, and we establish the existence of a search equilibrium …

important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the …-Coles (1997) do not apply for a marriage market linked to this labor market and discuss the consequences of this …

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be … we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …