To explain female adolescent marriage patterns around the world, we develop a marriage
market model with asymmetric information about prospective marriage partners, and a noisy …

Rajasthani women typically leave school early and marry young. We develop a novel
discrete choice methodology using hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make
choices about their daughters' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete …

I develop and test a novel theory of polygamy that incorporates an empirical feature
previously overlooked: Co-wives interact in a senior-junior hierarchy. In equilibrium, single …

Rajasthani women typically leave school early and marry young. We develop a novel
discrete choice methodology using hypothetical vignettes to elicit average parental …

Unequal gender roles cause inefficiency of human capital in the labour market. A crucial
dimension of gender inequality is the labour division between paid and unpaid work …

This thesis explores the drivers of socio-economic and gender inequalities in material living
standards, agency, health, and education. It combines four self-contained papers. The first …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make
choices about their daughters' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete …

I analyse a marriage market in which the output of two matched agents decreases with the
difference in their types. Payoffs as a function of type are wavelike and only weakly …