Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market …. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payoffs to … study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a dowry "inflation" in India. Using data from Karnataka it is shown that …

The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed … model of the marriage market to explain how the practice may be sustained in the absence of any intrinsic preference for … young brides. We assume there is a desirable female attribute, relevant for the gains from marriage, that is only noisily …

. The search for a suitable mate in a kidnapped marriage is initiated by the groom, and there is typically non …We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a peculiar form of marriage practiced in Central Asia, on child birth weight …

pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

propensities to form families via marriage or a nonmarital first birth among the majority population and the children of immigrants … America. Results demonstrated a generational shift toward the Nordic late marriage pattern among women and men originating …

, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …