importation: the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

generating gains from marriage. Educated men and women receive a larger share of the marital gains but this effect is mitigated …We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the … of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … their marriage-market return from schooling. Combining these two effects, we explain why women now attain higher schooling …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships. We then … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences …

relative proximity of spousal parents as instruments for relative autonomy to ameliorate the potential endogeneity between …

Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to … polygyny. Nor can they be explained by greater propensity for cooperation among women generally or by the household head acting …

sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation …

benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …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 …