Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the Marriage Market

By J. Lafortune. 2012

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Junsen Zhang
2. S. Aggarwal
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3. S. Aggarwal
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Citations in the corpus

• Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “24 Then the key feature of transferable utility is that a man (woman) with a given level of quality can “bid away” higher quality men (women) by offering the potential spouse on the other side of the market a greater share of the marital surplus. The well-known consequence is that the equilibrium, i”
• Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China (2013, background): “Thepossibility of a link between sex ratios and education and labor market investments has received some attention in economics (Angrist, 2002; Lafortune, 2008).”