increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by … confirms that migration rates are higher in areas with stronger historical dowry traditions. Finally, exploiting a large …

end of the nineteenth century. This paper sheds light on the unintended consequences of temporary migration from Poland by …-material effects of earlier migration from Poland, dating from the turn of the twentieth century, with those of the contemporary era of … migration from Poland since the 1990s. The analysis shows that some aspects, such as negotiating gender roles, the changing …

This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force … examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity … of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …

before and after marriage, in 1997 and 2007 respectively, and the same in true for each of the three subsamples analyzed …

This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U ….S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a "marriage migrant" (someone who arrived in the U.S. the same year as the marriage … spouse characteristics associated with having a marriage-migrant spouse. There appear to be several advantages to marrying a …

The paper tries to unknot one of the factors with potential but not yet proven that affect marriage sex ratio. We see … immigration and emigration will go a long way to help in estimating the marriage sex ratio. We provide a formula for marriage sex … factors can lead to erroneous estimates of the marriage sex ratio …

I study the impacts of exposure to one of Africa's largest circular migration flows using an arbitrary border within … - which promote HIV's spread - have long been smaller in this region, as circular migration allowed much younger men to afford … the requisite marriage payments to brides' families. …

characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a … coastal regions. After controlling for migration scope and destination location, the presence of children does not influence …