the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … young males. Lower marriage matching in the 18th and 19th centuries is accompanied by lower inequality across households …In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household …

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to … general equilibrium overlapping generations model with intergenerational linkages, a higher education choice as well as a … disciplined by US household survey data on income, wealth, education and time use. Studying the transitions induced by unexpected …

such as the stability of the family and education of parents. We interpret our estimates using the technology of skill …

We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate … attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid …

Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected … individuals match on traits correlated with the choice of education, such as innate ability, tastes or family environment. Another … possible explanation is that the choice of college education causally impacts whether and whom one marries, either because of …

marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …