This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors … ; education ; labor ; marriage ; social welfare ; linear programming …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive …

risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be … multiple equilibria differing not only in divorce rates but also in the role of marriage in providing informal insurance …

This paper explores the role of marriage when markets are incomplete so that individuals cannot diversify their … love. Is love more important to a lasting marriage than economic compatibility? To answer this question, I develop a simple … model where rational individuals meet, enjoy the economic and non-pecuniary benefits of marriage (i.e., love), and then must …

find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …

the theoretical literature suggesting a positive shock will reduce the benefits of the current marriage and increase the …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …