We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import … which gender occupational and industrial segregation leads to a widening of the gender gap in employment …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with …

We study the socio-economic determinants of child (girls below age of 19 years) marriage using a panel data of thirty … significant determinants of child marriage. Our results which control for province fixed effects (e.g. local cultural norms or … and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …