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2020
Working Paper

Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

I consider the widespread phenomenon of sex ratios skewed by parental preference. Edlund (1999) proposes that if parents prefer sons and permit only women to marry up in social class, sexes will segregate by wealth in equilibrium. Using data on 30,000 Indian children,... View Details

Keywords: Sex Selection; Marriage Market; Bargaining Power; Gender; Information Technology; Household; Outcome or Result; India

December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
Background Note

Troubled Marriages

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox

Compilation of articles looking at merger integration strategies: "business marriages." Problems of culture, management style, and business goals are revealed. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

What happens when giant multinational corporations acquire relatively small companies that enjoy iconic status as socially progressive brands? According to recent research out of Harvard Business School, such marriages can be good for... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

2012
Working Paper

Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration

Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian... View Details

Keywords: Immigration; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies; Education; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; East Asia; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan; Singapore

May 19, 2012
Article

Bill George: Speaking Out Against the Marriage Amendment

By: Bill George

December 1984
Article

Misrepresentation and Stability in the Marriage Problem

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Problems and Challenges

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2015
Working Paper

Marriage and the Marketplace: Dual-Career Couples in the 21st Century

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Forthcoming
Article

Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility

By: Michela Carlana and Marco Tabellini

We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930. Using a shift-share design, we find that natives living in cities that received more immigrants were more likely to marry, have children,... View Details

Keywords: Immigration; Demographics; History; Employment

9 Aug 2012
Interview

Marriages Fail, but There'll Always be Wedding Dresses

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Sally Hership

2008
Working Paper

Competition and Resource Sensitivity in Marriage and Roommate Markets

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus

We consider one-to-one matching markets in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. In these so-called roommate markets agents are consumers and resources at the same time. We investigate two new properties that capture the effect a newcomer has on... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Marketplace Matching

2000
Working Paper

The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

November 10, 2022
Article

How to Build a Life: Marriage Is a Team Sport

By: Arthur C. Brooks

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2001
Article

The Uneasy Marriage of Export Incentives and the Income Tax

By: M. A. Desai

Keywords: Taxation; Motivation and Incentives

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Article

Moving from Engagement to a Real Marriage of Brand and Customer

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Keywords: Technology; Digital Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing

August 1985
Article

The College Admissions Problem Is Not Equivalent to the Marriage Problem

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Higher Education

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October 12, 2023
Article

How to Build a Life: Why the Most Successful Marriages Are Start-Ups, Not Mergers

By: Arthur C. Brooks

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2013
Other Unpublished Work

'The Only Legitimate Fountain of Power': Initiatives, Courts, and Same-Sex Marriage in California

By: Timothy Lambert, David Moss and Sabeel Rahman

December 2019
Article

Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility

By: Alfred Galichon, Scott Duke Kominers and Simon Weber

We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching with imperfectly transferable utility and unobserved heterogeneity in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and... View Details

Keywords: Sorting; Matching; Marriage Market; Intrahousehold Allocation; Imperfectly Transferable Utility; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods

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2008
Working Paper

'Fair Marriages:' An Impossibility

By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus

For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible, i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many allocation of indivisible goods models (see Velez, 2008, and references therein),... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Fairness

May 1996 (Revised November 1997)
Case

Northeast Ventures: January 1996

By: Josh Lerner and Eric K. Jackson

Northeast Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on the development of northeastern Minnesota, seeks to combine social goals with financial returns. This marriage poses several challenges. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Social Enterprise; Investment Funds; Minnesota

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