Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market …? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich panel dataset from Malawi. We propose a … model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …

data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness … that the economic value of the marriage market matters for divorce decisions. …Do individuals marry and divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the economic attractiveness of a person …

or region of residence) operate on the same marriage market and are characterized by a homogeneous consumption technology … consumption level in case of marriage dissolution or spousal death. …

related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These … variables include sex ratios (and exogenous parameters that influence sex ratios) as well as legal changes related to marriage … and divorce. A reexamination of the determinants of the price elasticity of demand includes an explanation for gender gaps …

Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is … that removing the asymmetric information about sexual safety accelerates marriage and pregnancy for safe respondents, and … and accelerated marriage and pregnancy, increasing the probabilities of marriage and pregnancy by 26 and 27 percent for …

find that parents who do not marry off their under-age daughters in Malawian villages where child marriage is prevalent are … public donation drives across 412 villages, we find that those who do not support child marriage are no longer perceived as … marriage and teenage pregnancies decrease by nearly 30% in those villages, one year after the intervention. …

In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married …: where the prevalence of child marriage is high, those who do not marry off their under-age daughters are perceived as less … visible alternative to child marriage for parents who are only willing to engage in it out of social image concerns. One year …

Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is … that removing the asymmetric information about sexual safety accelerates marriage and pregnancy for safe respondents, and … and accelerated marriage and pregnancy, increasing the probabilities of marriage and pregnancy by 26 and 27 percent for …

Spending time together with a spouse is a major gain from marriage. We extend the classical collective model of the …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. … the effects of policy variables such as the costs of divorce and post-divorce income payments on the interrelationships …