"Going Solo" and is particularly evident among women who are the focus of our study. In this paper we investigate the … hypothesis that homeownership probabilities can be affected by marriage market expectations and pessimistic marriage market … that up to a certain threshold, the probability of homeownership decreases when the marriage market prospect indicator …

associated with a lower saving rate, consistent with the hypothesis that the relative under-supply of unmarried women generates a … less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage … in perpetuating disproportionate preference for boys. Women who married before turning 18 not only state a greater desire …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and … marriage bonuses contribute to a lock-in effect, where second earners, typically women, are incentivised to work less, with … of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we …

women who are relatively younger at the time of their husbands' job loss, ages 20-39. Although the magnitude of the added …

with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In … superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …