Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020
We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic …