and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …, male wage inequality should be associated with higher husband quality among those “early-mover” women who choose to forgo …

in married women’s employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …

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 …

partnership with one of India’s largest carpet producers, we offered a weaving job to 495 married women. We randomized whether job … couples that disagree about the appropriateness of women working as weavers …

attitudes regarding Title IX and women's rights are correlated with this remaining gender gap. Examining individual high school …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …