Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected … individuals match on traits correlated with the choice of education, such as innate ability, tastes or family environment. Another … possible explanation is that the choice of college education causally impacts whether and whom one marries, either because of …

Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies … marriage are anticipatory and strongest for men. The changes in offending vary substantially by partner's criminal history. …

In the current paper, we investigate within-couple inequality in earnings using Norwegian register data on married and …’s level of education. Controlling for demographic and socioeconomic variables, results showed that women on average still earn …

The family life courses of immigrants and their descendants, particularly intermarriage and the timing of marriage and …

immigrated as children or teens, in combination with data from the World Marriage Database, we investigate how residential … partner markets and marriage behavior in countries of origin shape partner choice and choice of union type in Norway. Results … singulate mean age of marriage (SMAM) in countries of origin was positively related to cohabitation, whereas those originating …

propensities to form families via marriage or a nonmarital first birth among the majority population and the children of immigrants … America. Results demonstrated a generational shift toward the Nordic late marriage pattern among women and men originating …

We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in … education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …