women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the …. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage competition remains a first-order effect on saving, when another margin of … adjustment to sex ratio imbalance, men's postponement of marriage, is considered. We construct a theoretical and quantitative …

associated with a lower saving rate, consistent with the hypothesis that the relative under-supply of unmarried women generates a … less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

-cycle collective household model for market and non-market work, consumption and asset accumulation, which also features lack of … commitment to lifetime marriage. Wages in the model shift intra-family bargaining power and induce bargaining effects on outcomes …

This paper studies the transmission of wage shocks into consumption across families that exhibit unobserved preference … heterogeneity. Heterogeneity and preferences over consumption and family labor supply are nonparametric. I show that any moment of … the joint distribution of policy-relevant wage elasticities of consumption and labor supply is identified separately from …

The paper deals with the effects of cohabitation of grown children with their parents on household saving, using data … by the consumption loss induced by the move (consumption is a public good while the child lives in the parental home). We … show that the child's income share affects the household saving decision, in contrast with predictions of the standard …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …-being, household saving, and even domestic violence and crime. …