How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

, without changes in marriage, fertility, psychological distress, or household consumption. …

permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present … varies by outcome and sample. -- marriage markets ; age difference ; selection …