Previous research has suggested that a new marriage gradient has emerged in the United States, with marriage becoming … in the marriage gradient among 25 European countries, using multilevel models. The focus is on the chances of living in a … married. For men, the educational effect on marriage is absent in traditional countries but becomes positive as gender roles …

education loan debt are more likely than women without such debt to delay marriage and transition into cohabitation. Single life … influenced by a young adult’s credit card and education loan debt above and beyond traditional educational and labor market …

consequences for childbearing early in marriage, we know much less about longer-term consequences of this marital revolution …

inequality, the role of marriage as a mechanism for social mobility, and the extent of cross-group interactions within a society …. However, studies of assortative mating have disproportionately focused on spouses’ education, rather than their social origins … spousal education explains only one-quarter of sorting based on parental wealth. We show that our results are robust to …

data on the universe of all 52,000 marriage decisions between 1982 and 1996 to examine changes in marital prospects for … use within-family marriage (in which one can promise ex-post payments) as a form of credit to meet up-front dowry demands …