exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites …, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …

once selection into marriage is controlled for. One possible explanation for the intermarriage penalty for Asians is an …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …

cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This …