This paper develops a new model for empirically analyzing dynamic matching in the
marriage market and then applies that model to recent changes in the US marriage …

The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the
world today, and is believed to cause significant disruption in their accumulation of human …

This paper considers a matching market with two-sided search and transferable utility where
match payoffs depend on age at marriage (time until match) and search is finite. We define …

Data from 160 countries show that during the twentieth century, western countries followed a
U-shaped pattern in the age of first marriage of both genders, while other countries did not. I …