higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

We examine the impact of early marriage across a wide range of outcomes for women in rural western Kenya. The timing of … physical maturation in girls has been shown to influence marriage timing in a quasi-random manner, and we find that each … additional year that menarche is delayed is associated with an increase of 0.25 years in age at first marriage. Using age of …

Two types of theoretical bargaining models can be employed to study issues on intra marriage bargaining -- a … decisions to bargaining power. The argument is that women prefer less children than men, and that bargaining power influences …

recurring theme is the 'success penalty', or the disadvantage career success poses to women in the marriage market. In this … marriage for women age 40-44 over the period 1980 through 2000. In 1980, the relationship between education and marriage was …The last several decades have seen profound changes in the roles of women in the labor market and the family, with both …

influence of marriage market conditions on women’s occupational choices. I find empirical support for these predictions using … segregation has been stubbornly persistent. I develop a new model that explains these occupational outcomes through marriage … market signaling. Vertically differentiated men have preference over women’s unobservable caregiving ability. Heterogenous …

While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation … of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can influence women's work choices pre-marriage … traditional gender norms. These findings suggest that expectations regarding returns in the marriage market may influence women …

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … contributor is gender-differential incentives to migrate due to rural women's higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …