higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss a theoretical model … in which the (negative) social attitudes towards working women might contribute towards the lower marriage rate of …

the number of men per woman, had a large positive impact on the likelihood of female marriage. More surprisingly, second …-generation male marriage rates were also an increasing function of immigrant sex ratios. The results also suggest that higher sex … consistent with theories where higher sex ratios increase male competition for women in the marriage market …

Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market should affect marriage decisions, we use … and child outcomes for blacks and Hispanics, at least for the children of women whose marriage decisions are most affected … may be driven by other factors that affect marital status at birth, post-conception marriage decisions, and later child …

, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two field experiments in an elite U.S. MBA …

This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in …