.  Using exogenous variation in inheritance rules in Malawi as a measure of outside options, the empirical results show that …

Why do some men father children outside of marriage but not provide support? Why are some single women willing to have … children outside of marriage when they receive little or no support from unmarried fathers? Why is this behavior especially … common among blacks? To shed light on these questions, we develop and estimate a dynamic equilibrium model of marriage …

when they lack power and cannot credibly threaten divorce. In Malawi, husbands often supplement farm income with wage … from Malawi. Identification is based on the fact that Malawi’s kinship traditions exogenously determine outside options … divorce to women in Malawi. …

-making responsibility is associated with marriage heterogamy, and not only along strictly economic dimensions. However, in support of an …