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 that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

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 that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 ….14 fewer years of completed education than those with non-smoking husbands. Finally, and somewhat counterintuitively, we find …

anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with their wage and education, and estimate who inter-racially marries whom …

, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 ….14 fewer years of completed education than those with non-smoking husbands. Finally, and somewhat counterintuitively, we find …

hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with their wage and education, and estimate who inter-racially marries whom …