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 postwar 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 …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …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 …

the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting … marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression … marriage ; regression discontinuity ; human capital ; family formation …Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as …

In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during …, in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries age of marriage was much less correlated across Western … countries. I propose a simple model where age of marriage is a function of search frictions and a structural change of the …

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … ; happiness ; comparisons ; panel ; households ; marriage …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …