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

Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts …This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

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 …

the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …