dataset by surveying 6,030 parents and adult children in Mumbai, India, to study selection into arranged marriage and its … ties between parents and sons increase the likelihood of an arranged marriage. Furthermore, when parents are involved in …“Arranged" marriages, characterized by strong parental control over mate choice, are the norm in India, although there …

the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian trade liberalization on marriage and … experienced relative increase in marriage rate compared to the districts that experienced smaller tariff cuts. Moreover, tariff … cuts positively affect the workforce participation among both young men and women in urban areas. However, there is no …

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market …

the medium run (1991-2001) and long run (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 trade liberalization in India on marriage and … no negative impact on the employment of young men and women. While we can explain our findings on marriage rates with the … find that districts that were more exposed to tariff cuts witnessed a larger increase in marriage rate, especially in urban …

in the world. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that Kosi floods reduced men's age at marriage by almost … married men and women and labor force participation of married women. We interpret these results within a model of marriage …This paper studies the impact of flooding of river Kosi on the timing of marriage in Bihar, one of the poorest regions …

India. 360 married couples were randomly assigned to either a control group, receiving a shared saving device (a lockbox …

Drawing data from the India Human Development Survey 2011 and the year of the first election with reserved seats for … women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous … variation in women's age at marriage. We find robust evidence that a one-year delay in women's marriage causes a significant …

from India, we find evidence of positive effects of women’s age at marriage on their own and their spouses’ labor market …The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing …