-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to … marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …

using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating … grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and … marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a …

using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of …

aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US …

.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … likely to arise solely from legal status acquired through marriage or characteristics of native spouses. We then present …

importation": the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …