educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …

differential effects of women's ability and charm on female match incentives. We use these results to assess the separate impacts … of the arrival of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and the advent of the contraceptive pill on female …

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 …

The transformation of women's lives in the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching social and … economic phenomena, affecting not only women, but also their partners and children. This Handbook provides the first … into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and …