It is now common for parents and relatives of an individual seeking to have an arranged marriage to set up one or more … this marrying individual. Even though this exposure level has a significant bearing on the eventual likelihood of marriage … focuses on the links between the trinity of meetings, exposure levels, and an arranged marriage. Next, we derive the …

. Increasing inequality explains about 25% of the marriage rate decline over the last few decades, and this is not due to the …

In contemporary times, Batabyal (1999) has demonstrated that when the decision to get married in an arranged marriage … marriage proposal. What happens when a marrying individual uses this decision rule: Get married as long as the quality of a … marriage proposal is larger than a random reservation quality level? In this paper, we provide an interesting answer to this …

comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage. As such, the purpose … marriage depends on a comparison of the expected amount of time it takes the agent's well-wishers to find a spouse with the …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

suggests that individuals with a higher preference for marriage also have more traditional views on the division of household …

comparative analyses in the economics literature of the relative merits of one or the other kind of marriage. Consequently, the … marriage depends on a comparison of the expected amount of time it takes the agent's well-wishers to find a spouse with the …

decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent's reservation utility as …