models to deal with measurement error in wealth reports. Our various results show that men and women in the U.S. marry … marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models, including transition matrices, OLS and TSLS … that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our results …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and …There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non … economic position of men in these populations is at least partially responsible for these trends. That leads to the reverse …

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 …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

. Alternatively, one of the benefits of marriage is specialization in the labor force; married men spend more hours in the labor force …Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience … marriage predict that males with higher wage rates have a greater gain from marriage and are therefore more likely to marry …

steady increase in the surplus of men relative to women. We construct an OLG model with two sexes and a desire to marry. We … show conditions under which an intensified competition in the marriage market can induce men to raise their savings rate …

) short men marry and divorce at lower rates than others and (4) both men's height relative to other men and their height … an enduring height hierarchy among men on in the spousal marriage market. Further, they indicate that at least one …. This article observes the effects of one physical characteristic of men--height--on various relationship outcomes in longer …

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …-scale highway construction program, we show that men from areas with stronger dowry traditions have a higher migration response to …