In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …

economic rights, as has been posited in the literature. The results underscore the importance of intra-household responses to … gender reforms, which have the potential to counteract legal gains in women's freedoms, and help explain why potential …

Hukou, China's household registration system, affects access to public services and signals the strength of a person …'s local social network, guanxi. We use a collective model and data on household consumption and spouses' hukou status to show …

on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …

the household …

We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider … household investments delegated to the wife in settings where wives perceived to be savvy investors by their husbands are …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …

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 …

after the reform by gender and household type (the parents' education). We find that changed incentives and, especially …The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles. In … 2002, with the goal of increasing gender equality, Sweden added a second "daddy month," i.e., an additional month of pay …