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This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
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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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