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 …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

This paper explains a stylized fact about the correlation between rising wage inequality and declining marriage rates … equilibrium in which the whole marriage market is divided into distinct groups and only people in the same group will marry each … other. Using IPUMS data from 1970 to 2000, our estimates show that in past decades the U.S. marriage market experienced a …

experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results corroborate the theory's implication that marriage and … earnings and marriage penalties …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …