in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how … bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn … gender and heterogeneity in dowry amounts across marriage markets, we find that the prospect of paying higher dowry increases …

hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great … influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject … to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect …