We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected.We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage … market outcomes for both men and women. To decompose the overall policy impact on the marriage market equilibrium, we develop …

so, examine the role of colleges as marriage markets. Using data from Norway to address key identification and … measurement challenges, we find that colleges are local marriage markets, mattering greatly for whom one marries, not because of …

divorce. I model the marital decisions of couples as a sequential game, in which the gain to marriage increases with household … bargaining power within marriage. This in turn affects the equilibrium marital outcomes. I use the variation in the timing of the … passage of the homemaking provision to identify its effect on marriage. I find that the provision substantially increases …

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …