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 …

I exploit the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which legalized millions of Hispanic migrants in the USA …, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … public schools with greater exposure to IRCA migrants. This effect is driven by increased Hispanic enrollment, while whites …