against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

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 …