This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts … matter in the marital choice of women who have at least one child. Exposing African women to the White woman’s marriage …

contraceptives and women's empowerment affected individuals' preferences for dating, marriage and fertility. In this paper, we … investigate whether the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s onward, a non-monetary shock, affected people's preferences for marriage … data, we estimate the marriage gain in two different time spans, 1984 to 1991 and 1999 to 2010, respectively before and …

. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits. -- Body Size ; Labor Supply ; Earnings … ; Marriage …

The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally … the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported …-marital partners than single men, but this regression does not account for selective entry into marriage. Indeed, the marriage effect …

or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits …