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 …

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

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 …

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

-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 …

Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …