previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed …-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … measures of reported relationship quality, but mainly for young people in cohabiting partnerships and men in less educated …