IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Young women in cities:published as 'Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 172, 103378

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16348

Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Non-arranged Marriages among Refugees

Andrew Foster, Merve Betül Gökçe, Murat Güray Kirdar

published as 'Intergenerational Power Shift and the Rise of Nonarranged Marriages Among Refugees' in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1427 - 1454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16314

Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16238

Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics

Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16228

When Death Was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage

Mette Ejrnæs, Esteban García-Miralles, Mette Gørtz, Petter Lundborg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16214

Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market

Shyamal Chowdhury, Prachi Singh

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16182

Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research

Shoshana Grossbard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16135

Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India

Gaurav Chiplunkar, Jeffrey Weaver

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, 103115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16097

Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Leslie S. Stratton

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16051

Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Olivier Marie, Esmée Zwiers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16022

Marriage in Old Age: What Can We Learn about Policy Impacts on Same-Sex Couples?

Leora Friedberg, Elliott Isaac

published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 679-706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16022

Marriage in Old Age: What Can We Learn about Policy Impacts on Same-Sex Couples?

Leora Friedberg, Elliott Isaac

published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 679-706

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15948

Women's Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market

Farzana Afridi, Abhishek Arora, Diva Dhar, Kanika Mahajan

forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15911

The Value of a Green Card in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Tale of Chain Migration?

Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula, Madeline Zavodny

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102062

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15841

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from Indian Census

Shruti Sengupta, Mehtabul Azam

published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 15 November 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15749

Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage

Geghetsik Afunts, Štepán Jurajda

published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (4), 1097–1116.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15654

Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (4), 1157-1190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15331

Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act

Elliott Isaac, Haibin Jiang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15288

Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte, Karine Marazyan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15267

Stable Income, Stable Family

Jason M. Lindo, Krishna Regmi, Isaac D. Swensen

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15138

Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages

Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 115–138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14949

The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff

published online in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25 November 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14918

Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (2), 322–333.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14877

Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Jennifer Louise Roff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14841

Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects?

Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores De la Mata, María Edo, Yarine Fawaz, Matilde P. Machado, Mariana Marchionni

published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110462

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14716

School Integration of Refugee Children: Evidence from the Largest Refugee Group in Any Country

Murat Güray Kirdar, Ismet Koc, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur

published as 'School Integration of Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85 102448.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14672

The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility: A Note on Identification

Tushar Bharati, Simon Chang, Qing Li

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 212, 1029-1055

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14520

More or Less Unmarried. The Impact of Legal Settings of Cohabitation on Labour Market Outcomes

Marion Goussé, Marion Leturcq

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 149, 104259

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14415

One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China

Jun Han, Zhong Zhao

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (1), 57-84

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14264

College as a Marriage Market

Lars Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14224

Trade Shocks, Fertility, and Marital Behavior

Osea Giuntella, Lorenzo Rotunno, Luca Stella

published in: Demography, 2022, 59 (6), 2135-2159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14144

Gender Norm Conflict and Marital Outcomes

Francisca M. Antman, Priti Kalsi, Soohyung Lee

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (4), 537 - 560

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985

Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13985

Education and Consanguineous Marriage

Pelin Akyol, Naci Mocan

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13885

Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market

Kota Ogasawara, Mizuki Komura

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35 (3), 1037-1069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13811

Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13653

Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments

Niaz Asadullah, Elisabetta De Cao, Fathema Zhura Khatoon, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34: 367-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13621

Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi

Manuela Angelucci, Daniel M Bennett

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (5), 2119–2148,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13594

Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13402

Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling

Ahmed Elsayed, Olivier Marie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340

Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13340

Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey

Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13217

More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy

Erich Battistin, Sascha O. Becker, Luca Nunziata

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (3), 447 - 472

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13162

Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality

Simon Chang, Kamhon Kan, Xiaobo Zhang

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 604-626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13061

Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

Scott M. Delhommer, Daniel S. Hamermesh

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12999

The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth

Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz

published in: Demography, 2020, 57 (5), 1809 - 1831

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Chunbei Wang

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12820

Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior

Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 128 (6), 2188–2244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12819

Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health

D. Mark Anderson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2021, 64 (1), 29-51.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12760

The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Karen A. Kopecky

published in: A. Bison; F. Giovanni (eds.), Handbook of Historical Economics, Academic Press, 2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12665

Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John T. Giles, Harold Alderman

published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516

Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability

Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12420

Parental Leave, Household Specialization and Children's Well-Being

Serena Canaan

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102127

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12356

The Marriage Age U-Shape

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (2), 211-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12324

What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?

Pavel Jelnov

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39 (2), 1327-1335

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12311

Economic Opportunities and Gender Equity: The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China

Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12301

The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar

Irene Mosca, Robert E. Wright

published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (1), 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12295

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Christina A. Houseworth, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12210

Marriage Market Equilibrium, Qualifications, and Ability

Dan Anderberg, Jesper Bagger, V. Bhaskar, Tanya Wilson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12185

The Economics of Hypergamy

Ingvild Almås, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12149

Overwork in Spouse's Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women

Terra McKinnish

published as 'Prevalence of Long Work Hours by Spouse’s Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women' in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 898-919

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11877

Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11877

Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11875

The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil

Breno Braga

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11756

Behind Every High Earning Man Is a Conscientious Woman: A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages

Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak, Julie K. Smith