Although disadvantaged women are the targets of marriage programs, little attention has been paid to women's marriage constraints and their views of marriage. Drawing on an exchange framework and using qualitative data collected from single women participating in a marriage initiative, we introduce the concept of marriageable women-the notion that certain limitations may make women poor marriag...

This research aims to describe the stages of implementation tamburu barata kahedupa tradition in Kaledupa Ethnic society Wakatobi Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province. is qualitative. Sources data this study consisted primary and secondary data. Primary obtained through observation interviews, while references, documents, or other reference books related topic discussion study. Data collection ...

BACKGROUND A well-documented association exists between age at marriage and the risk of divorce. However, substantial gaps in our knowledge and understanding of its origins, nature, and implications still exist. OBJECTIVES This article documents the relationship between women’s ages at first marriage and marriage cohort divorce rates, assessing the importance of relative ages at marriage (based...

In discussing the economic value of customary land in Papua New Guinea, we must recognise the ongoing polemic over land use. Much of this debate is driven by special interest groups seeking access to customary land. Customary landowners in Papua New Guinea, on the other hand, have been mostly well served by their system of custodianship. Land has been the basis for social cohesion, food securit...

Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, one must distinguish between a marriage that is created by a marriage-promoting policy (marginal marriage) and a marriage that would have been formed even in the absence of a state intervention (average marriage). We exploit the suspension of a cash-on-hand marriage subsidy i...

Weaving skills as a marriage requirement in the Sade Muslim Society is one of customary rules—living law—that remains to exist currently, although it not stated according Islamic law or state place. Departing from that uniqueness, this study aims explore reasons behind term. Data was collected through interviews and observation field. Inspired by Turner’s symbolic anthropological theory, shows ...

Most matching models of the marriage market assume increasing returns to scale, that is, they postulate that a larger pool of eligibles will lead to a higher marriage rate. Empirically, the difficulty in studying the cross-section relationship between the size of the marriage market and marriage behavior is that, in general, market size is endogenous. We address this issue in two ways. First, w...

The marriage market is a dynamic bilateral matching market with finitely lived participants. The growth rate of the number of marriages between two types of individuals estimates the systematic benefit to them delaying marriage for a period versus marrying immediately. Identification of the semi-parametric model is transparent. The model is estimated with 1990 US marriage data. The estimated mo...