, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labor-saving technological progress. …

may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

We use state repeals of blood test requirements for a marriage license that occurred between 1980 and 2005 to examine … the impact of changes in the price of marriage on the marriage decision. Using a within-group estimator that holds … associated with a 5.7% decrease in marriage licenses issued by a state. Using individual-level marriage license data from 1981 …

multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …