-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …

marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …

Using data from 29 countries from the Luxemburg Income Study, we demonstrate that married men earn on average 7% more … than unmarried men. Unmarried men would have to work 43 hours per week in order to earn the same as married men working 40 … hours. We find substantial cross-national variation: in some countries married men make 25% more than unmarried men, while …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …