liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …Worker industry affiliation plays a crucial role in how trade policy affects wages in many trade models. Yet, most … research has focused on how trade policy affects wages by altering the economy-wide returns to a specific worker characteristic …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

points less likely to be married than parents with a boy and a girl. Surveys of parental attitudes suggest that this effect …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage … represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. We show that married …

differentials in the effect of husband’s income, number of children, education, and age on married women’s labour supply. It is … which different religious groups have established to regulate marriage and divorce. Our results suggest that Christian … appear to be less likely to translate their resources into a higher value of time in marriage than either Christian women or …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …