significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In … biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

before they enter marriage. The correspondence assumption provides a plausible account of the genesis of household technology …

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage … search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to …'s marriage risk; relative to younger singleton sisters, younger twin sisters have the same effect. These effects intensify in …

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …