women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by … World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women … reductions experienced a significant decline in paid employment, whereas women in harder-hit districts increased their entry into … the laborforce. These changes in employment patterns triggered backlash effects by increasing intimate partner violence …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after … divorce risks. Instead, the findings point to explanations which involve family relationship dynamics associated with teenage …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … with similar gender norms will face a lower chance of marrying. Even if two parties marry despite a difference in gender … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts …