The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …

-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …, male wage inequality should be associated with higher husband quality among those "early-mover" women who choose to forgo …

working full time full year, and its impact on household income inequality. We also investigate how marriage sorting patterns …Using CPS data for 1976 to 2022 we explore how wage inequality has evolved for married couples with both spouses … have changed over this period. To determine the factors driving income inequality we estimate a model explaining the joint …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … income inequality. …

substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … 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 …

assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental … rise in average offspring education and earnings as well as a decline in offspring inequality. …

This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide … inequality between couples. Contrary to previous estimates, we account for possible biases in the estimation of assortative … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in …