particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …

. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the likelihood of obtaining at least 12 years of education and on the … children. These effects are heterogeneous by predicted education. For those with high levels of predicted education, giving … marriage, while increasing the probability of never having married. In general, for less advantaged teens, motherhood appears …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

education generate a considerable rise in household income inequality, but these price effects are partly mitigated by increases … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in each country. However, the time trends vary by the level … of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas the low-educated are …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …'s (1997) finding of a basically insignificant effect of marital sorting on inequality, we find that increased marital sorting … will significantly increase income inequality. Three factors are central to our findings: a negative correlation between …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter … impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we … frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage …