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 …

We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … sufficiently boost fertility for highly educated women. On the other hand, the social stigma has negligible effects on marriage and …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates …

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 …

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 …