We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage … gap decreased. These findings are consistent with men improving their position in the marriage market as they become …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …

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

rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the premarital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males …, where the bride's side has to pay substantial dowries to the groom's side at marriage, but a positive impact in the Republic … of Korea, where, as in the People's Republic of China, the groom's side has to bear a disproportionate share of marriage …