increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …-scale highway construction program, we show that men from areas with stronger dowry traditions have a higher migration response to …

distinction between intrinsic differences in preferences and skills between men and women versus differential constraints in …, where women and men typically face differential trade-offs between family and career, with implications for job sorting, job …

women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female … labor force participation when legal restrictions are relaxed, but also that men are more open to granting their daughters …

sizable child penalties: men and women follow parallel trends before parenthood, but diverge sharply and persistently after … 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 …

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married … clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is unaffected by spousal choice. Our … calculated high and highly variable marriage taxes materially reduce the probability of marriage particularly for low …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery …