This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts …) to more attractive (married civil). The estimation results suggest that both the quantity and quality of marriageable men …

current,but not the past, marriage. Second, domestic abuse is a dominant factor in thedivorce decision, which in turn is a …

edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and … boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …