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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 … adjustments increases the labor supply responsiveness of women by 28%. These adjustments affect human capital accumulation and has …

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 …