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 …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in …

multiple properties relevant for a workable measure of comparison. -- Stable Marriage Problem ; Matching ; Blocking Pair …