male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support … the notion that increased skill inequality contributes to rising earnings inequality. …

about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … also document a sizeable secular decline of parental assortative mating in education, with a corresponding fall in joint …

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal …

disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …, each factor, along with a history of racism and discrimination has contributed to the extreme wealth inequality in America …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

education on family formation through changes in the marriage market. My empirical strategy exploits the gradual implementation … formation and potentially affecting marriage and fertility outcomes. I study the implications of the female advantage in … of a large school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. I analyze the reduced …