daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … with similar gender norms will face a lower chance of marrying. Even if two parties marry despite a difference in gender … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … identifies gender differences in preferences that can explain the observed patterns. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …