This paper analyzes the education attainment of girls and boys cohabiting with parents aged 16 to 25 in Spain during … educational attainment of boys is more linked to household characteristics, whereas girls are more self dependent and they …

confronting women throughout the world—including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining …Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … Eswaran examines how women’s behavioral responses in economic situations and their bargaining power within the household …

confronting women throughout the world—including nonmarket scenarios, such as marriage, family, fertility choice, and bargaining …Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … Eswaran examines how women’s behavioral responses in economic situations and their bargaining power within the household …

We investigate the pattern of educational assortative mating, its evolution over time, and its impact on household … analysis, where we 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. However …

Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies … marriage are anticipatory and strongest for men. The changes in offending vary substantially by partner’s criminal history. …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

women workers in agricultural employment and rural industry, household income, living conditions, marriage, family planning … development policy based on the responsibility of the individual, household or work brigade for agricultural production. Covers …

development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction; however, gender inequality still persists. Maternal mortality rate is 190 deaths per …