. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively … residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings equations. Results indicate that there are negative effects of the spouse …This paper studies how the spouse’s productivity in the labor market affects one’s individual earnings when married …

spouses’ labor market performances. Productivity is approximated with residuals from estimates of pre-marriage earnings … migration on gross earnings in married and cohabiting couples. In particular, we examine the link between education level and … household earnings is largely explained by income gains among highly-educated males. Females generally experience no significant …

The degree of assortative mating shows the degree of similarity within couples. Many papers try to calculate earnings … correlations between husbands and wives. This paper tries to calculate the earnings correlations for Turkey and consider the effect …

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …

By reducing the risk of unwanted parenthood, more effective contraception reduces the cost of sex outside of marriage …, increasing the value of single life. Could this explain why marriage and birth rates declined in the U.S. after 1970?. We …, modeling the shotgun-marriage, contraception- method and abortion margins. We use US survey data on contraception, sexual …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

than fathers report. Parents who remain in a continuous coresidential union, who transition from cohabitation to marriage …

Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …