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51 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17653
Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
Frederik Almar, Benjamin Friedrich, Ana Reynoso, Bastian Schulz, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17420
Matching on Gender and Sexual Orientation
Edoardo Ciscato, Marion Goussé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17366
English Language Premium in a Marriage Market: Experimental Evidence from Delhi
Tomohisa Miyamoto, Arjun S. Bedi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17335
Job Displacement, Remarriage, and Marital Sorting
Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier, Bastian Schulz
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17242
The Economics of Abduction Marriage: Evidence from Ethiopia
Jorge Garcia-Hombrados, Lindsey Novak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16440
Daughters, Savings and Household Finances
Massimiliano Tani, Xin Wen, Zhiming Cheng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16368
Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures
Frederik Almar, Bastian Schulz
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 234, 11497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16353
Young Women in Cities
Yumi Koh, Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi, Hanzhe Zhang
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. 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. 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. 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. 14264
College as a Marriage Market
Lars Kirkeboen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad
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. 13340
Do Immigrants Pay a Price When Marrying Natives? Lessons from the US Time Use Survey
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
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. 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. 11877
Marriage Market Signals and Homeownership for the Never Married
Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11572
Marital Patterns and Income Inequality
Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber
published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 29-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11465
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson
published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1 (2), 161-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11329
Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?
Arnaud Dupuy
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36(4), 393-415
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11175
Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19(4), 1175-1207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10860
Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
Xi Chen
paper 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; paper 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10556
Marriage Markets in Developing Countries
S Anukriti, Shatanjaya Dasgupta
published in: S.L. Averett, L.M. Argys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10449
Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Yifei Sun
published in: Information and Inference: A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2019, 8(4), 677–689..
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10312
Marriage and Marriage Markets
Shoshana Grossbard
published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10242
Marital Matching, Economies of Scale and Intrahousehold Allocations
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Khushboo Surana, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (4), 823 - 837
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9843
Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Selma Walther, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 505 - 545
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9747
China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
Lisa A. Cameron, Xin Meng, Dandan Zhang
published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 790–820,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9533
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden
Karin Hederos Eriksson, Anders Stenberg
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9421
Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
Daniele Vignoli, Alessandra Venturini, Elena Pirani
published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9287
What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
Simon Chang, Rachel Connelly, Ping Ma
published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35 (4), 471-500
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8348
Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Sonia Oreffice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8070
Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock, Frederic Vermeulen
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6943
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1271-1319.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6678
Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Earnings, Ability and Appearance
Hani Mansour, Terra McKinnish
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 577-580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6196
Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
Pierre-André Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, 82, 399-421.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5392
Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market
Pierre-André Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published as 'Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences: Education and Smoking in the Marriage Market' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16(1), 161-198.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4594
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market
Pierre-André Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published as 'Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 120 (4), 659-695.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4456
Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (4), 331-377
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4431
Substitution Effects in Parental Investments
Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow, Jackie Wang
Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 28(2), 423-462 [Winner of Kuznet's Price 2015]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4243
Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market
Loren Brandt, Aloysius Siow, Carl Vogel
published in: Journal of the European Economic Assocation, 2016, 14 (6), 1437 - 1468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3336
‘Arranged’ Marriage, Co-Residence and Female Schooling: A Model with Evidence from India
Indraneel Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra, Diganta Mukherjee
published in: Mukhopadhyay, H. et al. (eds.), Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2884
Household Division of Labor, Partnerships and Children: Evidence from Europe
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Almudena Sevilla
published as 'Social Norms, Partnerships and Children' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 215-236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2722
Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation
Shoshana Grossbard, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (3), 249-278
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2377
Can Anyone Be “The” One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Michèle Belot, Marco Francesconi
revised version published as 'Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 48 (2), 474-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1847
Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi, Thomas Siedler
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1677
The Determinants of the Prevalence of Single Mothers: A Cross-Country Analysis
Libertad González
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1082
A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity
Eugenio Giolito
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