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 …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio … sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

This paper examines the causal effects of television exposure on individual decisions regarding marriage, divorce, and … family planning by utilizing a natural experiment in the German Democratic Republic during the period of German division. I … exposure to Western TV significantly reduced the likelihood of marriage and childbirth while increasing the probability of …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption … in marriage formation. …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption … in marriage formation. …