We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997) are matched with newly digitized information on war casualties coming from the Italian National Bureau of Statistics. We find that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a year of schooling. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in rural provinces, mountainous provinces, and provinces with a higher share of population employed in agriculture. This result suggests that in these provinces the war caused a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with.

我们调查了二战引起的性别比例变化如何影响意大利男性在婚姻市场上的讨价还价模式。第一波意大利家庭纵向调查（1997 年）的婚姻数据与意大利国家统计局最新的战争伤亡数字化信息相匹配。我们发现，战后婚姻中的男性在配偶教育方面的情况更好，这种收益相当于大约半年的学校教育。通过考虑跨省的异质性，我们发现这种影响在农村省份、山区省份和农业就业人口比例较高的省份更为明显。这一结果表明，在这些省份，与城市、低洼地区、