Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market … study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a dowry "inflation" in India. Using data from Karnataka it is shown that … the observed shifts in the age distributions and sex ratio of unmarried men and women during the marriage squeeze lead to …

of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is … stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet … little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world. This paper examines the economics of … marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed …

We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption …. We define a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is stable …. Stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We characterize stable marriage …

Can households make efficient choices? The fact that cohabitation and marriage are partnerships for joint production … household choices are made efficiently or not, there does not yet exist an attempt to identify the marriage market and household … or spousal endowment inequality is relatively high. Still, when there are equal numbers of men and women in the marriage …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing … ; marriage ; bargaining ; household labor supply …

This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in which the gains from marriage are …