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 …

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 …

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 …

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on … the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can …

with household bargaining explanations. For couples with children, improved women’s household bargaining position is …

individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We find substantial differences by gender. Men respond to import competition by … such response for women, who do not increase labour supply following shocks affecting their partners. Gender differences in …