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

marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

entrusted with a larger budget share. We show, first theoretically, then empirically in a series of experiments in Malawi, that …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using … status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is … status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational …

with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative … to traditional marriage, circumstances that impede marriage should also encourage single motherhood. However, few studies … marriage market prospects and the prevalence of never-married mothers. Much of the existing literature frames the expansion of …

Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …

marital status, time until first marriage, and duration of first marriage. The results indicate that in general, drug users … are more likely to be unmarried due to a delay in the age at first marriage, and shorter marriage durations. The findings …