or region of residence) operate on the same marriage market and are characterized by a homogeneous consumption technology … consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death. …

find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …

In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married …: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less … visible alternative to child marriage for parents who are only willing to engage in it out of social image concerns. One year …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

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 …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …