for marital commitment. As the gains from traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has …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 …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender … educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages are relatively stable …

profiles for men and women born before 1960, suggesting that gender-specialized contributions to household public goods were an … formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality … important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men …

marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for older men and older women, suggesting that gender …, relationships between personality traits and the probability of marriage are identical for men and women, which is consistent with … returns to marriage that are based on joint consumption. Tastes for marital public goods are negatively related to openness to …

The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data …, including from experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other traits. At the same time, economists have … culture and social norms. Despite these innovations much of the economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a …

-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … women's STEM avoidance, but male low achievement has been less-studied and tends to be attributed to behavior problems and …