In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled ones. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage market penalty for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women have improved, the penalty has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We propose a theoretical model in which the (negative) social ...

Little is known about current attitudes towards cousin marriages. Using data from a rural population in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the present research examined how life history was related to attitudes towards cousin marriages in various ethnic groups. Participants were 205 parents from three ethnic groups. i.e., Mestizos (people of mixed descent, n = 103), indigenous Mixtecs (n = 65), and B...

This paper analyzes marriage market equilibria when the gains from marriage result from joint consumption of household public goods. Assuming a class of utility functions which guarantee transferable utility within marriage, the paper proves that marriage markets will be characterized by positive assortative mating on income. A tendency for positive assortative mating on wages is also demonstra...

The relationships among marital aggrandizement, satisfaction with life, and marital satisfaction were examined among an international sample of older adults (N = 400). Three distinct groupings were identified on the basis of cluster analysis. A minority of participants emerged as being dissatisfied with life and marriage. This grouping (the distraught) holds realistic perceptions of their relat...

popular novels are among recentphenomena in literary trends with a large number of audience and high salerates. this paper is an attempt to analyze the degree and reasons forreading popular novels by students of university of isfahan. we studied popularnovels in three different dimensions:  appearance, content and literary qualities.variables such as gender, level of education, socio-economic s...

Historically, marriage has always been at the center of a tension between religious and secular systems, which relationships tend towards influence and cooperation rather than exclusiion and separation. Religious law has given an input to the process of emphasizing the freedom of selfdetermination of indiividuals in marriage matters and promoted a woman’s recognition of an equal position. Marri...