higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 …-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged …

Does mental accounting matter for total consumption expenditures? We exploit a unique setting in which individuals … individuals temporarily increase total consumption expenditure by making purchases with the new card without reducing spending on … the others. We do not observe a corresponding increase in indebtedness. Total consumption expenditure rises even for the …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …