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While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book demonstrates how a few core concepts, linked via economic analysis, help explain a multitude of findings based on statistical analyses of data from a wide variety of cultures. It is hoped that readers of this book will improve their understanding of how marriage works to help us design better economic and social policies as well as help people live better and happier lives, making the book of interest to not only economists but sociologists and anthropologists as well.

Economics/Management Science. --- Labor Economics. --- Family. --- Sociology, general. --- Anthropology. --- Microeconomics. --- Economics. --- Labor economics. --- Economie politique --- Economie du travail --- Micro-économie --- Anthropologie --- Marriage --- -Equilibrium (Economics) --- 330 --- Disequilibrium (Economics) --- Economic equilibrium --- General equilibrium (Economics) --- Partial equilibrium (Economics) --- Economics --- Stagnation (Economics) --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Economic aspects. --- Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse --- Married people --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Economic aspects --- Employment --- 330 Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse --- Sociology. --- Families. --- Social aspects. --- DGE (Economics) --- DSGE (Economics) --- Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (Economics) --- SDGE (Economic theory) --- Price theory --- Human beings --- Families—Social aspects. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Households --- Kinship --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Primitive societies