and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline –albeit non-significant– in the number of marriages. While … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the … labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …

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

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 …

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 …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under … educated, and show that this fraction decreases if women's labour market returns increase. We also examine the robustness of …

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 …

related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …