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born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …
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We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have … -- BMI ; height ; wages ; earnings ; marriage market …
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We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using … white man finds a thinner spouse in a black woman. -- interracial couples ; marriage market ; BMI ; wages ; education …
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or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits. -- Body Size ; Labor Supply ; Earnings … ; Marriage …
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We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …
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We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...
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born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049742
or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related … traits are more relevant in the marriage market than the corresponding male traits …
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