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 …

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 …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

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 …

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

generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …