We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women’s earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter … having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We …

-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples – but not naive ones – may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …