This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …

Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …

. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively … residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings equations. Results indicate that there are negative effects of the spouse … marriage. However, closer examination shows that only the youngest groups of males and females experience this negative effect …

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences … for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in … early-marrying women over a span of three decades. We find that the practice of child marriage has become much less …

dataset by surveying 6,030 parents and adult children in Mumbai, India, to study selection into arranged marriage and its … effects on spouse choice. I consider the choice between an arranged and a love marriage as the outcome of bargaining between … ties between parents and sons increase the likelihood of an arranged marriage. Furthermore, when parents are involved in …

We analyze the role of the marriage contract. We first formalize three prominent hypotheses on why people marry …: marriage provides an exogenous payoff to married partners, it serves as a commitment device and it serves as a signaling device … given duration of marriage. We then bring these alternative views of the marriage contract to bear on the data using …