Abramitzky, Ran; Delavande, Adeline; Vasconcelos, Luís - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - 2010
We assemble a novel dataset to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that post war in regions with higher...