In this paper we evaluate the degree to which the adverse parental divorce effect on university education operates … through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings from Taiwan, we first find that parental divorce … indicate the potential parental divorce effect due to family income loss. We find the job-loss effect very little. Combined …

children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost … 75,000 Norwegian children, all of whom, until they were at least age 18, lived in nuclear families. Controlling for a …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and … graduates, less-educated women are more likely to enter into cohabiting partnerships early and bear children while cohabiting …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates …

fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are … greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility …

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

institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …

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 …

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 examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare …

two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children …