Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …

Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His … argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men … would benefit women. Using life satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we conduct an empirical …

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

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …