insurance to their members. Unique panel data providing information on income, assets, gifts, loans, consumption, marriage, and … migration are used to link caste networks to household and aggregate mobility. Our key finding, consistent with the hypothesis …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in … distribution of completed childbearing around a two-child mode and a decrease in childlessness; (2) the decoupling of marriage and …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to …, and to the marriage and enrollment decisions of their male siblings. Girls exposed to the garment sector delay marriage …

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 …

-term relationships, including spouses' attributes, marriage entry and stability, and the division of household labor. Drawing on two … an enduring height hierarchy among men on in the spousal marriage market. Further, they indicate that at least one …