born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …

This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the … trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and spousal decision-making after a marriage has …

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e. love), and then must …