social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have …

planted with the same crop in the same year, within a given household, those controlled by women produce lower yields than the …

. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …

goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …, these returns are larger for women than for men but the opposite may occur if marriage prevails. Finally, it is shown that …In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force … presence in the household of preschool and school-age children and/or the elderly and disabled affects women's likelihood of … any person aged 75 or older) significantly increases prime-age urban women's likelihood of participating in market work …

resource flows, such as childcare and eldercare, are particularly important between women and their parents, the family … opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these location choices. Surprisingly, married men live significantly closer to … their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this difference cannot be explained by differences …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …