This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange … effect can be quantitatively large if the biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. We also provide within …

labor force participation or has any impact on local marriage and fertility patterns. While our results are consistent with …

to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great … influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject … to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …