a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on … characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …

decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

We construct a structural model of household decision-making and matching and estimate the returns to schooling within … marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow … between 1943 and 1972, we show that the preference for assortative matching by education has significantly increased for the …

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

the relationship between educational attainment and age at first marriage. Theory suggests that there are two effects … analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional …

marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …