two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less …

marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative … race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … potential spouses and potential supplies of spouses in regional marriage markets. This paper examines the possibility that the …

population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner …

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results corroborate the theory's implication that marriage and … earnings and marriage penalties …

We examine changes in marriage and earnings patterns across four cohorts born between 1936 and 1975, using data from a … men and women, marriage has become increasingly positively associated with education and earnings potential. We compare … ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect (FE) estimates of the earnings differential associated with marriage. We find …

-specific breadwinning norms may be fading with time, economic realities and marriage market dynamics continue to be drivers of behavior and …

This paper explains a stylized fact about the correlation between rising wage inequality and declining marriage rates … equilibrium in which the whole marriage market is divided into distinct groups and only people in the same group will marry each … other. Using IPUMS data from 1970 to 2000, our estimates show that in past decades the U.S. marriage market experienced a …

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …