I present a theory of couples' job search whereby women sort into lower-paying geographically-dispersed occupations due … 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 …

with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently … these higher returns to search. We confirm using U.S. decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data from 1980 …-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently … these higher returns to search. We confirm using U.S. decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data from 1980 …-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

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 …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …