educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …

In recent years, the traditional gender gap in educational attainment in favor of men has been reversed in many … formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation …

of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from … concerted move toward sensitization of gender issues and scrutiny entailing a gender audit at every level of activity. This may …

In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i … these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but opposite effects on the early marriage hazard in the two regions: in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … mechanism, I provide evidence of increased gender-specialized parenting in families with mixed-sex children. Finally, I find …