This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty …

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-beingin a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likelyfor marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples.Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can beshown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich tothe poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo... …

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to …

reform and devolution for inequality and well-beingin the largest and most diverse city in the United States.The project uses … these data by population andover time, we hope to address questions that are at the coreof current debates about inequality … in the United States:How great is inequality? Does income inequality exaggerate,or reflect, inequality in material and …

increase furthermore appears to depend on the future marriage market prospects that women at the timecould expect to face in … marriage market conditions, therefore, and foreseeable improvements in the future marriage market prospectsof women appear to …