estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects. …

marriage, while increasing the probability of never having married. In general, for less advantaged teens, motherhood appears … surprisingly little evidence that births affected teens conceiving pre- and post-marriage differently. …

that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued …

characteristics influence direct measures of life satisfaction from three large and recent Canadian surveys. The well-being results … jobs, so as to increase both life satisfaction and workplace efficiency. …

government. Finally, Canadian life-satisfaction data show that several non-financial job characteristics, and especially the …

Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We … hypothesize that the "marriage ideal" is determined by the median income in an individual's local reference group. After …

compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …