This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

well as members of adjacent generations linked by marriage (in-laws) are modeled as self-interested agents offering or … and happiness of in-family caregivers could be enriched by taking account of material in-marriage transfers that the … their counterparts in the South. Their families are also likely to pay lower dowries at the time of marriage, which is …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …

We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross … China and HK, marriages of HK men with Mainland women outnumbered those of HK women with mainland men sevenfold. Following … the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the … male-to-female ratio in the pre-marital cohort explains 60 percent of the rise of China's aggregate household savings rate …. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage competition remains a first-order effect on saving, when another margin of …

We use census and household survey data to document China's educational assortative marriage and its evolution between … counterfactual Gini coefficients that would prevail if marriage matching was random in terms of education. For China in 2005, the … in China since the early 1990s, which is also true for urban areas and for different provinces. We then calculate the …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage …