to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase … incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other … about half of the actual increase in the household savings rate during 1990-2007 …

their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …

of female rule on war among European polities over the 15th-20th centuries. We utilize gender of the first born and … division of labor. These asymmetries, which reflected prevailing gender norms, ultimately enabled queens to pursue more …

models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women …, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have been ignoring women and marriage in setting up structural …

the number of men per woman, had a large positive impact on the likelihood of female marriage. More surprisingly, second …-generation male marriage rates were also an increasing function of immigrant sex ratios. The results also suggest that higher sex … consistent with theories where higher sex ratios increase male competition for women in the marriage market …

This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …