the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

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. …

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

benefits from the agreement and moves the intermediate-gap couples to their outside option where women work more and men do …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous … setting. Women in British territories benefited from a universal education system and gained opportunities for paid employment …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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. …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …, male wage inequality should be associated with higher husband quality among those "early-mover"women who choose to forgo …