attributes, such as age and weight, and that there is positive sorting along age, height, and education. The role of individual … preferences, however, is outplayed by that of opportunities. Along some attributes (such as occupation, height and smoking …

between 1943 and 1972, we show that the preference for assortative matching by education has significantly increased for 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 …

a new matching technology. We note that recent changes in family forms demand a reassessment of theories of the family …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

analyse the effect of an individual’s education level on the timing of first marriage. Controlling for other institutional … factors, cohort effect and social/ family background we find that the higher an individual’s education level, the older they … are when they first marry. We find that the effect of education is much stronger for females than for males. …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …