marriage formation, participation, and family labor supply. Intrahousehold transfers arise endogenously as the transfers that clear the marriage market. The intra-household allocation can be recovered from observations on marriage decisions. Introducing the marriage market in the collective...

Between 1958 and 1961, China experienced one of its worst famines in history. Birth rates plummeted during these years, but recovered immediately afterwards. The famine-born cohorts were relatively scarce in the marriage and labor markets. The famine also adversely affected the health of these...

Income differences across countries are to a large degree driven by differences in aggregate TFP. Recently it has been argued that part of these differences are due to misallocation of factor across firms. In this paper we propose a structural model of this degree of misallocation. Our model is...