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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 that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099447
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141200
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 status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049742
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 status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278624
anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with their wage and education, and estimate who inter-racially marries whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286882
, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education within smoking types of couples. 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 that, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353435
% increase in BMI can be compensated by a higher wage of around 3%. Similarly, for women, an additional year of education may …
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anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, together with their wage and education, and estimate who inter-racially marries whom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395430
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777142