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 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 …

% increase in BMI can be compensated by a higher wage of around 3%. Similarly, for women, an additional year of education may …

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 …