Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …

of men to women in marriage markets - on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

hours of work are relatively inelastic for men, but are a little more responsive for married women and lone mothers. On the … other hand, participation is quite sensitive to taxation and benefits for women. Within this paper we present new estimates …