financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

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 …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in … education and in husband's occupation. We additionally consider whether male wage inequality increases wage uncertainty, leading …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced …In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …