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

causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral responses to the dramatically changed marriage market conditions for …

Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at … first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …