frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial …

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 …

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 …

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat. …

; however, our estimates combined with differences in rates of widowhood across gender suggest that marital status can explain … only one third of the gender difference in total out-of-pocket medical spending, leaving a large portion unexplained. On … the other hand, gender differences in widowhood more than explain the observed gender difference in out-of-pocket spending …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …