Marriage Market Imbalances

Sex selective abortions cause marriage market imbalances in countries such China and India, and create major social problems. However, marriage market imbalances can also arise due to other factors, and my recent research explores these causes, and the consequences of imbalances. Some of this research was undertaken with the support of a Senior Research Fellowship from the British Academy/Leverhume Trust.

Here is a non-technical article I wrote for the newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, on the subject.

Papers

Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Pre-Marital Investments with Assortative Matching (with Ed Hopkins), Nov. 2013.

The Demographic Transition and the Position of Women: A Marriage Market Perspective, Dec. 2013.

Sex Selection and Gender Balance. , American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011. (This version incorporates the corrigendum that was published in the May 2011 issue).

India's missing girls: Biology, customs and economic development, (with Bishnupriya Gupta) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2007.