. 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 …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring’s parents-in-law. Using the … mating in the marriage market. Substantially higher estimates are reported when measurement error is accounted for. We also …

basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

– both own education and that of parents – in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …