market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …

marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that … marriage bonuses contribute to a lock-in effect, where second earners, typically women, are incentivised to work less, with …

marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that … marriage bonuses contribute to a lock-in effect, where second earners, typically women, are incentivised to work less, with …

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 …

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. …