at first marriage. -- Marriage ; search ; sex ratio …We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage …

We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … free parameters: the search friction and the utility share of bearing children. We choose their values to match the median …

for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age and hence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. This … completely hold, especially in modern times. This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in …, the average age at first marriage and the pattern of the sex ratio of single men to single women over different age groups …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

analysis. In this paper we study the unintended consequences of a public information campaign on water quality on the marriage … campaign. We study the impact of the campaign on marriage patterns in rural Bangladesh. Using a difference-in-difference model …, we analyse the age at marriage, bride price agreed at the time of marriage and find that both of them decreased in …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …