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 …

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 …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

-violent marriages, the vast majority of violent marriages end in divorce, and employment rates are lower for women who experience abuse …. We then construct a sequential model of employment, marriage and abuse. The results indicate abuse is the primary factor … experiments suggest men are more responsive to policies designed to increase the costs of abuse than women are to policies …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

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 …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …