We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … differences, social status and stratification, and overall economic development. -- Mating ; marriage ; cultural values ; social …

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …

While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …. We conduct an experiment on an online marriage market platform that allows us to measure preferences of individuals in …