- into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization …, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage. … more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting …

Recent influential papers claim that single men's saving competition for marriage intensified by an increase in the …. In this paper, we analyze whether the marriage competition remains a first-order effect on saving, when another margin of … adjustment to sex ratio imbalance, men's postponement of marriage, is considered. We construct a theoretical and quantitative …

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to … women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

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 …

the "marriage squeeze," a population increase leads to an excess supply of brides since men marry younger women. As a … result, dowry payments rise in order to clear the marriage market. The explanation is essentially static; unmarried brides do … not re-enter the marriage market. This paper demonstrates that the marriage squeeze argument cannot explain dowry …

In this study, we consider the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family formation and dissolution. We use national … findings indicate that over March through December of 2020, marriage rates declined by 54% and divorce rates by 43%. By the end … of 2020, divorce rates recover back to baseline levels, but marriage rates remain 30% below the 2017-2019 baseline level …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

marriage. We find that marriage rates increase sharply around the time of a move in an event study analysis. Reduced form … exposure analysis reveals that an additional move over a five year period increases the likelihood of marriage by 14 percent …-term intentions. These findings are consistent with a model where the marriage decision is costly and relocation lowers the costs to …

We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health … violence and child mortality while controlling for potential confounds. We find that children of (ever) victimized mothers are … mortality using an instrumental variables strategy. Exploiting variation in domestic violence and marital rape laws across …

workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document a stunning asymmetry: when a man loses his job in a …, the size of earnings and income losses, and the importance of family structure and gender roles. Spousal labor supply …