Assortative matching in Africa: Evidence from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi

Claire Boxho, Aletheia Donald, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao and Léa Rouanet

Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 187, issue C

Abstract: We document novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural Mozambique, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malawi.

Keywords: Assortative matching; Marriage market; Cognitive skills; Socio-emotional skills; Time preferences; Risk preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 I2 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108924

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