marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

– transfers from the groom to the bride’s parents at marriage. We develop a simple model in which households are exposed to income …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption …. We define a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable …. Stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We characterize stable marriage …

be interpreted through a structural model of the marriage market; in particular, a crucial issue is how they relate to … variations in the economic surplus generated by marriage. We propose a very general criterion of increase in assortativeness, and … US over the last decades, and conclude that assortative matching has increased, particularly at the top of the education …