longevity effects are magnified at the level of the couple by assortative marriage …

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …-scale highway construction program, we show that men from areas with stronger dowry traditions have a higher migration response to …

distinction between intrinsic differences in preferences and skills between men and women versus differential constraints in …, where women and men typically face differential trade-offs between family and career, with implications for job sorting, job …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, and the marriage market explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting … matters crucially for conclusions about how education-based marriage market sorting contributes to rising income inequality …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …

the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the … 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 …