the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian trade liberalization on marriage and … experienced relative increase in marriage rate compared to the districts that experienced smaller tariff cuts. Moreover, tariff … impact of tariff cuts on marriage rate or workforce participation among young for rural areas. In contrast, tariff cuts …

sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being …

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 …

The extent to which marriage market conditions explain differences in marriage and employment decisions across blacks … and whites and across men and women is considered in a dynamic, two-sided model of marriage. The quantity and quality of … men and women in the marriage market evolve endogenously over time in the model, and in turn influence the allocation of …

countries. I propose a simple model where age of marriage is a function of search frictions and a structural change of the …In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during …, in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries age of marriage was much less correlated across Western …

of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals …