marriage in North Africa, where asymmetric rights in marriage create incentives for extensive up-front bargaining and detailed … marriage contracts. As well as describing the limited literature on the economics of marriage in North Africa, this paper draws … for the economics of marriage in North Africa. New empirical evidence is presented on the economics of marriage in Egypt …

This paper examines whether foreign competition affects the reallocation of unpaid and family workers from household … businesses to working outside of the family firm. Using a rich panel dataset of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises that went … through trade liberalization, I find that import competition leads to the switching of family and unpaid employees from …

The disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history … the creation of the homelands. Despite the removal of legal restrictions on permanent urban settlement and family co …

This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our … regression and instrumental variable approach suggest that living in a joint family lowers married women's non-farm employment by … family. An increased education level is likely to raise women's earning capacity as well as the quality of jobs which may …

second child. Next, I show that the increase in family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous …