with their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity – in … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband – impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income … gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …

We explore the link between child gender and household financial decisions within a cultural environment that strongly … favours having a son. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that the presence of a daughter is … marriage market thanks to the relative under-supply of unmarried women, have lower incentives to raise their female heirs …

conflictual interactions within the household.Participation in a rosca is a strategy a wife employs to protect her savings against …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … identifies gender differences in preferences that can explain the observed patterns. …

This chapter surveys the voluminous literature on household formation and marriage markets in developing countries. We … market. We end the chapter with a discussion of marriage dissolution and other changes in household structure. Fertility … these factors are particularly important in poor countries, especially in a rural setting. We then focus on marriage, which …

The focus of this study is to estimate an equation explaining the determinants of dowry. In this paper, we address a … very common socio-economic problem for sub-continent, the problem of dowry. From a social planner's perspective, who wants … to reduce overall dowry transfers, we consider the effect of change in a few relevant parameters like husband height …

diminishes with age. I examine several hypotheses for this phenomenon, among which the division of labor within the household is …' bargaining power, as the estimated bargaining power from a model including home production, shows almost no gender imbalance …

particular. The issues addressed here include: the confusion between female headship analysis and gender analysis of poverty; the … existence of alternative definitions of household headship; and the existence of different analytical purposes of using the … concept of household headship and the need for using appropriate headship definitions for each purpose …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …