scholarly journals Sanitation and Marriage Markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanghmitra Gautam ◽  
Paul Rodriguez-Lesmes ◽  
Juan Pablo Baquero ◽  
Britta Augsburg
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Markets

Marriage Markets and the Paradox of Mexican American Nuptiality

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 889 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Oropesa ◽  
Daniel T. Lichter ◽  
Robert N. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Marriage Markets

Marriage Markets and Marital Choice

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL T. LICHTER ◽  
ROBERT N. ANDERSON ◽  
MARK D. HAYWARD
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Markets

Marriage Markets for Elite Women

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Marjatta Rahikainen
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Markets

scholarly journals Marriage and Marriage Markets

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Shoshana Grossbard
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Sex Ratios ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Marriage Markets ◽  
Gary Becker ◽  
Marriage Formation ◽  
The Impact

This chapter reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio can help explain outcomes such as marriage formation, the intramarriage distribution of consumption goods, labor supply, savings, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Economic models of marriage pioneered by Gary Becker are reviewed in the first section and then extended in the next section to incorporate the labor market for the work-in-household approach of Grossbard. The following section discusses challenges in identifying exogenous variation in sex ratios and presents empirical evidence on the impact of sex ratios on labor supply, consumption, savings, and several other outcomes.

scholarly journals Natural shocks and marriage markets: Fluctuations in mehr and dowry in Muslim marriages

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 103510
Author(s):  
Shyamal Chowdhury ◽  
Debdulal Mallick ◽  
Prabal Roy Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Markets

scholarly journals Potential (Mis)match? Marriage Markets Amidst Sociodemographic Change in India, 2005–2050

Demography ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ridhi Kashyap ◽  
Albert Esteve ◽  
Joan García-Román
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Markets

scholarly journals Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition: Evidence from South Asia*

2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 1017-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom S. Vogl
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marriage Markets ◽  
Sufficient Time ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Marriage Age ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Status Data

Abstract Using data from South Asia, this article examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter’s groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger sisters. Relative to younger brothers, younger sisters increase a girl’s marriage risk; relative to younger singleton sisters, younger twin sisters have the same effect. These effects intensify in marriage markets with lower sex ratios or greater parental involvement in marriage arrangements. In contrast, older sisters delay a girl’s marriage. Because girls leave school when they marry and face limited earning opportunities when they reach adulthood, the number of sisters has well-being consequences over the life cycle. Younger sisters cause earlier school-leaving, lower literacy, a match to a husband with less education and a less skilled occupation, and (marginally) lower adult economic status. Data from a broader set of countries indicate that these cross-sister pressures on marriage age are common throughout the developing world, although the schooling costs vary by setting.

Spousal Alternatives and Marital Relations

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 787-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Trent ◽  
Scott J. South
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
Marriage Markets ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Subjective Measures ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
The Impact

This analysis merges marital history data for respondents in the National Survey of Families and Households with census data describing the sex composition of their local marriage markets to examine the impact of the availability of spousal alternatives on subjective measures of marital relations. The authors find significant bivariate associations between the sex composition of the local marriage market and husbands' and wives' marital happiness, perceived likelihood of divorce, and anticipated change in happiness if divorced. However, the effects of the sex composition of the local marriage market on these measures of marital quality are not significant after adjusting for racial differences. Racial differences in these subjective measures of marital quality cannot be explained by racial differences in mate availability, socioeconomic status, and other dimensions of sociodemographic background.

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