manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … premature mortality, and raise the share of mothers who are unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single …

constructed from CDC life table data shows that the randomness of mortality and the overlap between spouses' age …-specific mortality distributions imply dramatically long life spans for surviving spouses. The 4 x 4 longevity matrices show that … longevity effects are magnified at the level of the couple by assortative marriage …

This paper analyses social inequality in adult mortality over the last 500 years in rural Aragon (Spain). It uses … family, cultural and environmental variables are known. Using advanced statistical techniques (mainly event history analysis … focused on observing the evolution of inequality in mortality by SES over a period of 500 years, deepening and relating it to …

workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document a stunning asymmetry: when a man loses his job in a …, the size of earnings and income losses, and the importance of family structure and gender roles. Spousal labor supply …