We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of … short supply. The model generates clear cut conditions regarding matching patterns. Using CPS data and its Tobacco Use … are satisfied. There are fewer "mixed" couples where the wife smokes than vice-versa, and matching is assortative on …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation …, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as a cut-off point, the one-child policy has … the former arising from the true over-supply of men while the latter due to the matching process. The one-child policy on …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility …

in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …

the host country. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions …

effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline … during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation …

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China …

exploit a different source of exogenous variation in family size. The One Child Policy (OCP) in China dramatically reduced …