benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily … prove that women are better off under polygyny than under monogamy. …

inequality in the US and provide a basis for weighing the relative decline in earnings and consumption for the less educated …

polygyny. Nor can they be explained by greater propensity for cooperation among women generally or by the household head acting … Africa. We find that cooperation is greater – production is more efficient – among co-wives than among husbands and wives …

participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more … traditional gender roles this implies a negative association between availability of CLM and the labor supply of women who are … availability are almost always negative for cohabiting and married women, and sometimes also for single women. The effects of CLM …

and couples in which women earned more. The empirical results for dual-earner couples are in line with the theory. The …

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …

more so for childless whites and where there are fewer men per woman. Effects are larger for college-educated men and women …

robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of … with within-couple age difference, but this is due to the fact that women with differently-aged spouses work more hours not …