This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter …'s disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show that an increase in segregation has potentially ambiguous effects on … the model to the results obtained previously for the US. We find that segregation is likely to have a smaller negative …

This article reviews recent developments in the literature on marriage markets. A particular emphasis is put on …

The purpose of this paper is to study how education shapes the allocation of talent. To model the link between … education and the allocation of talent, we add two features to a Spence (1974) type of two-sector education model. First …, performance contracts give a worker incentives to choose the sector where (she believes she is) most productive. Second, education …