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 …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … parental earnings rank, a predetermined measure of earnings capacity that solves the simultaneity problem of matching affecting … earnings outcomes, we show that hypergamy is an important feature of Norwegian mating patterns. A vignette experiment …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …

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 …

earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

degree of specialization in more narrowly defined household tasks from the 2001-2019 waves of the Household, Income and … provides limited evidence of specialization in any type of relationship. The results for women are much stronger. Women who … yields some further evidence of specialization. Survey responses on the degree of specialization are more informative. The …