This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

Premiums and eligibility for health insurance may cause a "marriage lock," in which couples stay married for the sake … estimates thus provide evidence that marriage lock exists. …

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

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 …