We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …

earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish … prompted legislation against them in several jurisdictions. Marriage payments are often a substitute for investment in female …

framework that rationalizes hypergamy even in the absence of gender differences in the distribution of earnings capacity. Using … parental earnings rank, a predetermined measure of earnings capacity that solves the simultaneity problem of matching affecting … earnings outcomes, we show that hypergamy is an important feature of Norwegian mating patterns. A vignette experiment …

suitable alternatives, the taboo was no longer expedient, and was dropped. For the same reasons, marriage has become less …

This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating …, marriage circumscribes female infidelity and mate poaching among men, which reduces average levels of paternal uncertainty in …

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …