I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …

marriage market is not unidimensional: individuals face important trade-offs between the attributes of their spouses which are …

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their relation breaks down this influences their … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …