We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, 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 …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be …

estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and …We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … Empowerment ; Principal Component ; Education ; Instrumental Variable …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be … empowerment ; principal component ; education ; instrumental variable …