This paper investigates empirically whether cultural, racial, and linguistic similarities increase marriage migration …. By using marriage migration data from South Korea, I find that the similarities between an origin country and South Korea … pull more marriage migration, but the positive effects of the similarities are mainly driven by female marriage migrants …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

marriage migration. The empirical evidence supported by marriage migration data from South Korea shows that the bilateral … similarities between Korea and spouse-sending countries are important pull factors of marriage migration. Furthermore, the pull … effects vary across different income levels of sending countries and between the genders of marriage migrants. The positive …