This study examines changes in labor supply, income, and time allocation during the COVID-
19 pandemic in Mexico. Using an event-study design, we show that the COVID-19 recession …

In large families, individuals must share resources with many others but may benefit from
economies of scale. This paper studies individual consumption in different types of …

We study the relationship between dowries–wealth transfers from the bride's family to the
groom or his family at the time of marriage–and individual-level poverty in rural India. Based …

This study investigates the effect of intrahousehold property ownership on family structure
using a difference-in-differences (DID) strategy and an exogenous source of variation in …

This study estimates the relative importance of alternative supply and demand mechanisms
in explaining the rise of female labor-force participation (FLFP) over the last 55 years in …

Studying how the pandemic affects the education and work of adolescents is a critical
question with long lasting implications for well-being of the next generation, particularly in …

An institutional perspective emphasizes the fact that behavior is shaped by rules that
humans superimpose on their economic environment. In the context of the family, such rules …

This paper studies spouses' intrahousehold decision-making, using unique information from
the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions special module on …

Over the past three decades, educational attainment in Mexico has grown substantially. This
increase in educational attainment may affect marriage patterns through the growing supply …

We find that state-level no-fault divorce reforms in Mexico had no impact on female suicide
or homicide rates. Unlike in high-income countries (Stevenson and Wolfers (2006) …