differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation …

find that poor women and men with low levels of education are the most negatively affected by the tradition of bride price … women, empowerment will give leeway to girls in traditional societies, even if the bride price system is not overturned …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

bride families to grooms at the time of marriage, have evolved through natural shocks. We develop a model of marriage market …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …