Why Marriage?

Why Marriage Matters , Third Edition

Why the marriage squeeze cannot cause dowry inflation

It has been argued that rising dowry payments are caused by population growth. According to that explanation, termed the `marriage squeeze', a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do not re-enter the marriage market. Th...

Marriage penalties , marriage , and cohabitation

I examine the effect of marriage penalties in the US income tax system on marital status. I construct a simulated instrument that exploits variation in the tax code over time and between US states to deal with potential endogeneity between the marriage penalty a couple faces and their marital status. I find that a $1000 increase in the marriage penalty faced reduces the probability of marriage ...

Marriage

The author of this book, who is Associate Professor of Sociology, University ' Michigan, is obviously aware that even in this large volume of 460 pages it ^ J be difficult to do justice to a subject of such magnitude and diversity as implieCL, the title. He has, therefore, limited his approach by focusing primarily on Amerl college students and graduates, both as material and audience. Within t...

Marriage Form and Age at First Marriage:

Using data from two surveys in three counties where the prevalence of uxorilocal marriage differs greatly, this paper analyzes the effects of marriage form, individual, family and social factors on age at first marriage and spousal age difference. The results show that, under the Chinese patrilineal joint family system, compared with the dominant virilocal marriage form, uxorilocal marriage sig...