How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … 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 …

pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market …

to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great … influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject … to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect …

. -- gender ; competition ; incentives ; GRE ; high stakes ; low stakes ; test score gap …

high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …