Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

time of marriage continue to remain in a strong position post marriage as seen by their decision to use the contraceptive … total household marriage payment, increases from 0.1 to 0.3 the predicted probability of the mother using the contraceptive … pill increases by 8 percentage points. -- marriage market ; marriage payments ; female bargaining power ; contraceptive use …

marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

the "marriage squeeze," a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a … result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do … not re-enter the marriage market. This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry …

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

marriage does not appear to translate into economic protection. …

- into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization …, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage. … more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …