the husband, the wife spends more time on household chores; moreover, those couples are less satisfied with their marriage … argue that this pattern is best explained by gender identity norms, which induce an aversion to a situation where the wife … earns more than her husband. We present evidence that this aversion also impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender … and compatible with current economic theories of household behaviour, some of the findings of the study are less expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

Having a female firstborn child significantly increases the probability that a woman’s first marriage breaks up. Recent … concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …