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281 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11085
Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Evidence from the Irish Marriage Bar
Irene Mosca, Vincent O'Sullivan, Robert E. Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11046
Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce
Jan Kabátek, David C. Ribar
published as 'Daughters and Divorce' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2144 - 2170
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11043
Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2299-2320.
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. 10827
Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
Melvyn Coles, Marco Francesconi
revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search with Multiple Attributes and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (1), 138-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10775
Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10740
Marriage and Housework
Cristina Borra, Martin J. Browning, Almudena Sevilla
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (2), 479 - 508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10592
Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?
Albert Young-Il Kim, Jungmin Lee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10592
Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health among Young Mothers?
Albert Young-Il Kim, Jungmin Lee
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. 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. 10552
Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Krisztina Kis-Katos, Janneke Pieters, Robert Sparrow
published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10527
Cleaning in the Shadow of the Law? Bargaining, Marital Investment, and the Impact of Divorce Law on Husbands' Intra-Household Work
Jennifer Louise Roff
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. 10362
Family Economics Writ Large
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Guillaume Vandenbroucke
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, 1346-1434.
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. 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. 10270
Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado, Alan Sanchez
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (4), 1217-1236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10268
Not Your Lucky Day: Romantically and Numerically Special Wedding Date Divorce Risks
Jan Kabátek, David C. Ribar
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 31 (4), 1067 - 1095
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. 10130
The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
Elizabeth Brainerd
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9844
Field-of-Study Homogamy
Alena Bicakova, Štepán Jurajda
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. 9727
Integration of Ethnic Minorities: Do They Divorce as Natives Do?
Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Jens Bonke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9671
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
Murat Iyigun, Jeanne Lafortune
published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289
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. 9532
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Wei Huang, Yi Zhou
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023
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. 9198
Common Law Marriage and Teen Births
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8936
Heterogeneity in Spousal Matching Models
Jason M. Fletcher, Norma Padrón
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8831
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, Cezar Santos
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8795
Schooling, Marriage and Age of First Birth in Madagascar
Peter Glick, Christopher Handy, David E. Sahn
published in: Population Studies, 2015, 69 (2), 219-236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8728
Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach
Shoshana Grossbard
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 13-25
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8633
Does Marriage Make You Healthier?
Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Joan Llull
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8626
Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Delia Furtado, Tao Song
published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8611
But Who Will Get Billy? The Effect of Child Custody Laws on Marriage
Elaina Rose, Crystal (Ho Po) Wong
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8570
A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Solomon Polachek, Xu Zhang, Xing Zhou
published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8483
Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
Rachel Heath, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115, 1-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8481
Intermarriage and the Unhealthy Assimilation of Immigrant Descendants
Osea Giuntella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8480
Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8480
Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:16
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8348
Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Sonia Oreffice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8348
Season of Birth and Marital Outcomes
Sonia Oreffice
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8346
Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
Shelly Lundberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8307
Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
Anne-Kathrin Bronsert, Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 163-188
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. 8065
Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?
Nahikari Irastorza, Pieter Bevelander
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7982
Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer
published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7937
Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use
Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon
published in: Research in Labor Economics (Gender Convergence in the Labor Market), 2015, 41,43-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7858
Which Children Stabilize Marriage?
Héctor Bellido, José Alberto Molina, Anne Solaz, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
published as 'Do children of the first marriage deter divorce?' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 55, 15-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7770
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Natascha Wagner
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7607
Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Shelly Lundberg, Robert Pollak
published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7588
Why Does the Health of Immigrants Deteriorate? Evidence from Birth Records
Osea Giuntella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7316
The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market
Andriana Bellou
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 265-297
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7293
Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
Yoram Weiss, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
revised version published as 'Cross-border marriage costs and marriage behavior: Theory and Evidence' in: International Economic Review, 2018. 59 (2), 757 -784
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7239
For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7210
Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries
Martin Halla, Mario Lackner, Johann Scharler
revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 292 - 323
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7185
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Govert Bijwaard, Qi Wang
revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7119
Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
Shoshana Grossbard, Sankar Mukhopadhyay
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7038
United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
Helmuth Cremer, Pierre Pestieau, Kerstin Roeder
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (1), 195-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7010
The Economics of Grief
Gerard J. van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Johan Vikström
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1794 - 1832
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. 6942
Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6862
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
M. Shahe Emran, Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka, Stephen C. Smith
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6831
Assimilation through Marriage
Gil S. Epstein, Renana Lindner Pomerantz
published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 191–203.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6784
Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Robert M. Sauer
published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56(2), 537-564
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6729
Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis
Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen
published in: Demographic Research, 2013, 29 (20), 521-542
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6729
Delayed Entry into First Marriage: Further Evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael Hypothesis
Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen
published in: Demographic Research, 2013, 29 (20), 521-542
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6704
Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6704
Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379
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. 6661
Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control
Caitlin Knowles Myers
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (6), 2178–2224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6607
Sociability and the Timing of First Marriage
Odelia Heizler (Cohen), Nira Yacouel, Ayal Kimhi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6599
From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions
David de la Croix, Fabio Mariani
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2015, 82(2), 565-607
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6533
Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
Robert J. McCann, Xianwen Shi, Aloysius Siow, Ronald P. Wolthoff
published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2015, 31 (4), 690-720
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6458
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Daiji Kawaguchi, Soohyung Lee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6458
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Daiji Kawaguchi, Soohyung Lee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6458
Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Daiji Kawaguchi, Soohyung Lee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6399
Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects
Delia Furtado, Stephen Trejo
published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 15, 276-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6379
The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce
Gustaf Bruze, Michael Svarer, Yoram Weiss
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 123-170
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. 6043
Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Z. Eylem Gevrek, Deniz Gevrek, Sonam Gupta
published in: International Migration, 2013, 51 (6), 146-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5966
Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5954
Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability: Evidence from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth
Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5954
Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability: Evidence from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth
Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5887
The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Murat Güray Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Ismet Koc
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(4), 640-668.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5886
Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010
Diane J. Macunovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5886
Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: Marriage in the U.S. 1968-2010
Diane J. Macunovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5695
Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball
Francesca Cornaglia, Naomi E. Feldman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5685
Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Katrine Vellesen Loken, Kjell Erik Lommerud, Shelly Lundberg
published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 285-310
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5622
Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation
Magnus Strömgren, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Szymon Marcinczak, Olof Stjernström, Urban Lindgren
published as 'Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants' in: Demography, 2014, 51(2), 645-671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5567
Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
Olga Nottmeyer
revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5468
Pill Power: The Prequel
Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado
published as 'How the other half lived: Marriage and emancipation in the age of the Pill' in: European Economic Review. 2015, 80, 295 - 309
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. 5317
Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!
Lena Nekby
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5317
Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!
Lena Nekby
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5234
Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
Alberto Bisin, Eleonora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 146-164.
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