influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject …, albeit of a much smaller magnitude, is also found among women. We show that this is likely driven by the widowhood effect—women …

, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …

men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor … force. After taking into account gender specific selection effects and the effects of the programs on pregnancies, gender …

extract from marriage. When the returns to education and household roles are gender neutral, men and women educate in equal … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market … investments that are efficient. Given that the gender wage gap narrows with the level of education, women's labor-market return …

a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men …

of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health … clots and breast cancer among healthy post-menopausal women. Because hormone replacement is a therapy exclusive to women, we … using men of similar ages as the control group. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 1998 …

initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been … facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is … evidence using the World Values Surveys that female total work is relatively greater than men's where both men and women …