Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

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 …

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 …

Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social …. Given prevailing gender gaps in height and earnings, positive sorting implies it will be rare for women to be taller than … empirical application, we show that simulations which sort couples positively on permanent earnings can largely replicate the …

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 …

the "marriage squeeze," a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a … result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do … not re-enter the marriage market. This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry …