East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage can shape various dimensions of the society ranging from … consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood …

This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …

models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women …, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have been ignoring women and marriage in setting up structural …

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …

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 …

find that the home production complementarity - by strengthening positive marriage sorting and reducing the gender gap in … marriage market and sorting on the labor market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production - whether partners …' hours are complements or substitutes - shapes marriage market sorting, labor market sorting and labor supply choices in …

Child marriage remains common even where female schooling and employment opportunities have grown. We introduce a … signaling model in which bride type is imperfectly observed but preferred types have lower returns to delaying marriage. We show … that in this environment the market might pool on early marriage even when everyone would benefit from delay. In this …

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 …