This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

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. …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …

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

-specific rather than choice-specific random preferences. The original marriage matching function gets modified by an adjustment factor …

: 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 … villages where child marriage was most prevalent at baseline, and (2) in those villages, parents who do not marry off their …

I model how agents' marriage decisions and schooling investments relate to cultural and religious intragroup … intergenerational transmission of cultural traits to children through marriage. In addition, the benefit of a higher level of education …