We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in postwar marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate … response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …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 …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 …

causes are proximate in nature, reflecting behavioral responses to the dramatically changed marriage market conditions for … women and men that were induced by war-related declines in adult sex ratios. Based on county-level census data for the … changes in adult and off spring sex ratios. Our results suggest that war-induced shortfalls of men significantly increased the …

exogenous shock to the French male population due to WWI casualties. We analyze a novel data set that links marriage-level data … with military mortality, which exhibits exogenous geographic variation. We find that men married women of higher social … ratio from one man for every woman to 0.90 men for every woman increased the probability that men married up by 8 percentage …