. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk. … to the labour market when they are confronted with a high likelihood of divorce and vice versa. Similarly, work hours …

The institution of consanguineous marriage-a marriage contracted between close biological relatives-has been a basic … and a groom. When marriage contracts are incomplete, dowries transfer control rights to the party with the highest … incentives to invest in a marriage. When these transactions are costly however, consanguinity can be a more appropriate response …