, focusing on issues of gender discrimination and intra-household resource allocation. In particular, using representative panel … data from Indonesia covering a period of 22 years, we analyze how ethnic-based kinship systems and marriage customs …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

in men and women - after four years or longer, about twice the gain associated with marriage (controlling for weight … cohabitation; women lost some weight in the first year, men gained some weight after four or more years of separation. Divorce … marriage or cohabitation do not necessarily include a healthier BMI. They also suggest that relationship transitions …

traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage …