marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

This paper utilizes data from Taiwan to examine whether male wage inequality explains the decline in the propensity to … marry. Our empirical results find a small but insignificant effect of regional wage inequality under different measures and … specifications of inequality. …

marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …

developing world. In a model of incomplete marriage markets, dowries are viewed as ex ante transfers made from the bride's family …

mixed, but generally indicates that those reforms played only a modest or temporary role in generating trends in marriage …

religion, and present some new results regarding spatial spillovers in marriage. The resulting predictions regarding spatial …

matching patterns in the marriage market in China. To distinguish between confounding policies of the period, a static general … they are pursued and concomitantly reducing the marriage rate. Upon verifying that the policy was binding via a Poisson …