there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …

This paper studies the effects of local marriage markets on South African women’s marital decisions. The analysis is … all these never married mothers have no access to their fathers' resources. The low sex ratio of 92 men to 100 women among … Africans aged 20-40 makes us believe that shortage of marriageable men may explain marriage patterns. Economic theory predicts …

boys, women and girls, or both. We find that targeting men, or both genders jointly, significantly reduces child marriage …Interventions that aim to change outcomes for women and children typically target women. Yet in contexts where men are … edutainment intervention aimed at delaying marriage of adolescent children in rural Pakistan. Our treatment arms target men and …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed … lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to the public. Divorce is one of the major events that obliges the … guarantor to repay outstanding residual debt after (foreclosure) sale. We argue in this paper that divorce is endogenous to …

significantly reduced university attendance by women relative to men. Additionally, we find that the policy had a negative impact on … women in 30% of Iran’s public universities, mostly in sciences and engineering. To analyze the effect of the policy, we use …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … of farmers. Women in urban municipalities, however, set the norm far earlier and differences across social classes were …–class women. This paradox is resolved by noting that they substituted registered work for unregistered work, e.g., in house …