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 …

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

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 undertaking a …

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 …

differently by maternal and paternal characteristics and with different effects on men and women. …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence … households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

joint income taxation of married couples on the marriage rate in Switzerland, where tax differentials between married and … simulated instrumental variable approach, I find a negative impact of joint income taxation on the marriage rate for couples …