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

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …