decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …) or to promote marriage and fertility …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage …

China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … include demographic, policy, and financial causes. Yet a lack of reliable microlevel data on household finances makes it … Chinese bank in Inner Mongolia. We match a large subset of bank customers to administrative records covering marriage and …

the household …

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 …

quantify the contribution of various factors to the distribution of household income. We find that educational assortative … mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income in each country. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. This is because the …