cyclical pattern of the two private financial balances. We analyze all these aspects estimating a VAR - between household and …

This paper uses panel data through 2011 to examine evidence of shifts in household balance sheet behavior following the …

This paper looks at arrears among US households between 1995 and 2013. It uses household data from the Survey of … Consumer Finances (SCF) where arrears occur when a household reports it “sometimes got behind or missed a payment”. The key …

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 …

assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …