Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more … preference for a taller husband, can partly explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and … we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to … higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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. …

on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

leverage an existing randomized controlled trial of an edutainment intervention addressing child marriage decisions for girls … IPV is highest when men and women are jointly targeted. Due to systematic gender differences in preferences, our … persuasion model further predicts that marriage delays are largest when targeting men alone or jointly with women and smallest …

migrants, exploiting the unexpected increased denials of H-1B visa extensions in the United States beginning in 2017. We find …