average. This holds not just for standard characteristics but also for those directly related to marriage like children and …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

A longstanding tradition of patrilocal marriage – living in the husband's natal household - affects every generation of … suggests that elder household members, especially the mother-in-law, play a key and often detrimental role in the lives of … similar treatment effect does not emerge between physical violence and the presence of parents-in-law in the household …

Appendix to “Queen Bees and Domestic Violence: Patrilocal Marriage in Tajikistan,” available here: 'http …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by … is observed to be coresiding with a son or a daughter. Men are more likely to remain in the same household with a male …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

attainment by 5 percentage points and earnings by 14 percent, while reducing their likelihood of marriage by 4 percentage points …