growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries …

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … that women benefit from labor force participation, and that this gain exceed financial benefits from earnings. However, the … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. Because of paternal uncertainty, men unlike women may err in investing resources in offspring that is not biologically theirs … promiscuity in society. Both women and men are shown to benefit from lower levels of paternal uncertainty, as does average child …

It is commonly observed that across societies and time, women tend to marry older men. The traditional explanation for … explanation holds even where differences in fertility between men and women are taken in account. This explanation, however …, especially in modern times. This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in life than men can be …

presence of children increases the participation of men and reduces the participation of women suggests that the added …

The consumption literature uses adult equivalence scales to measure individual level inequality. This practice imposes … the assumption that there is no within household inequality. In this paper, we show that ignoring consumption inequality … within households produces misleading estimates of inequality along two dimensions. First, the use of adult equivalence …