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 …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … of the marriage market to derive several implications of our empirical findings: (i) husbands' and wives' incomes are … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching …

conducted on a matrimonial website, to examine returns to English language skills for females in a marriage market in Delhi …. Indicating strong English language skills in a marriage profile increases the number of views and interests received by 20% and … English language proficiency expands the set of potential marriage partners and may help promote inter-caste alliances. …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor … identified as most likely to be affected by CLM availability - the youngest white men w/o college education - we find positive …

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the … characteristics of newlyweds, we find that alimony reform increased measures of spousal covariance in education. Our results indicate …