marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on … within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and demographic outcomes …

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 …

Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on …€™s patterns of entry into marriage and cohabitation in Portugal and Spain. In these two Southern European countries, gender equity … effect of female education is consistent with the independence hypothesis, women’s labour force participation encourages …

between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest … odds of first marriage; while women reduce economic activity in anticipation of or due to marriage. Moreover, marriage is …