that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … industries, working in the family firm or farm. …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in postwar marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … industries, working in the family firm or farm. …

that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected … industries, working in the family firm or farm. …

We investigate the effect of a change in the sex ratio on assortative matching in the marriage market using a large … negative exogenous shock to the French male population due to WWI casualties. We analyze a novel data set that links marriage … endogenous sex ratio with military mortality, which exhibits exogenous geographic variation. We find that men married women of …

links marriage-level to French population and military mortality. Then, we calculated the sex ratio in a region with … military mortality, which exhibits exogenous geographic variation. Ultiamtely, we found that men married women of higher social … of man to woman from 1.00 to 0.90 increased the probability that men married up by 8 percent. These findings provide …

explore two competing explanations for this decline: changes in the selection of high-wage men into marriage and changes in …Historically, one of the most robust findings from human capital wage equations has been that married men earn more … than men who never marry. However, the earnings premium paid to married compared with never-married men declined by more …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …