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 …

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 …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the … suggest some solutions. -- matching ; marriage ; assignment ; assortative matching ; canonical correlation …

labor-market return and a marriage-market return because education can affect the intra-marital share of the surplus one can … extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market …

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 …

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 …

rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments …