It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

relationship, (ii) the type of partner, and (iii) the endogenously determined probability of matching. If men outnumber women, they … result shows that some women would ideally not have sex, but do so out of matching concerns; the reverse is true for men … statement holds for women. Using data from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health we estimate the equilibrium matching …

that men and women in the U.S. marry spouses whose parents have wealth similar to that of their own parents; and are very … the degree to which spouses sort in the marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models …-quarter of this sorting, and also show that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our …

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 …