. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … income inequality. …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …

This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very … inequality due to changes in the wage earnings component is mitigated by changes in the tax and transfer components in both … in the tax component to lowering the growth of inequality in the Czech Republic, while the reverse was true for Slovakia. …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …