goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …, these returns are larger for women than for men but the opposite may occur if marriage prevails. Finally, it is shown that …In order to credibly sell legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

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 study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit … the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia's WTO accession to assess how changes in the employment of women … relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff …

social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have …

social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low … socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of a female birth and these daughters are less likely to die during … infancy and childhood. On the contrary, high-status women are less likely to give birth to girls and their daughters have …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …