Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these … indices for agents on each side of the market provide the best approximation of the matching surplus by a k-dimensional model … marriage market is not unidimensional: individuals face important trade-offs between the attributes of their spouses which are …

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

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have … women assess each other through an index combining these various attributes, so the matching is one-dimensional. We estimate … -- BMI ; height ; wages ; earnings ; marriage market …

card. We examine the effect of those policy changes on Chinese immigrants' marriage market outcomes relative to other East … spousal chain migration occurred. We also find that highly educated Chinese immigrants benefited in the marriage market in …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose a multi-period frictionless matching … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital … only slightly affected by assortative matching. …