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

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

we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …