population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner …

and the estimated earnings effects for sexual minorities. For instance, regions, sexual minority data set sizes, and …

data align well with the idea of a concentrated discrimination account, whereby a minority of employers who privately hold …

incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to … marry, now face the same marriage incentives that different-sex couples faced for decades. We highlight marriage incentives … affecting older couples, who have rarely been studied. Using the American Community Survey, we estimate decreases in marriage …

there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …