) analysis by studying the impact that learning - about the circumstances of a prospective marriage - by the mediator has on the …

It is now common for parents and relatives of an individual seeking to have an arranged marriage to set up one or more … this marrying individual. Even though this exposure level has a significant bearing on the eventual likelihood of marriage … focuses on the links between the trinity of meetings, exposure levels, and an arranged marriage. Next, we derive the …

In contemporary times, Batabyal (1999) has demonstrated that when the decision to get married in an arranged marriage … marriage proposal. What happens when a marrying individual uses this decision rule: Get married as long as the quality of a … marriage proposal is larger than a random reservation quality level? In this paper, we provide an interesting answer to this …

It is now common for parents and relatives of an individual seeking to have an arranged marriage to set up one or more … this marrying individual. Even though this exposure level has a significant bearing on the eventual likelihood of marriage … focuses on the links between the trinity of meetings, exposure levels, and an arranged marriage. Next, we derive the …

, he has shown that a marrying agent's optimal policy depends only on the properties of the current marriage proposal …, independent of whether there is recall of earlier marriage proposals. In this paper, I continue this line of inquiry. I examine …

decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent’s reservation utility as …

comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage. Consequently, the … marriage depends on a comparison of the expected amount of time it takes the agent's well-wishers to find a spouse with the …