Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing …

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

all-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women but …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …, compounded with isolation from extended family as well as a lack of social and market infrastructure, constrained female …

estimate significant marriage effects upon time use. Most married women gain 33-34 minutes of leisure each weekday when … compared to single women. While marriage does not lead to more leisure for husbands, it allows them to allocate time away from … single counterparts. The temporal and financial gains from marriage for most people are inconsistent with its declining …