between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning … economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several …

The degree of assortative mating shows the degree of similarity within couples. Many papers try to calculate earnings … correlations between husbands and wives. This paper tries to calculate the earnings correlations for Turkey and consider the effect …

We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …

earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

earnings, potential earnings, education, occupation). Second, we assess the contribution of assortative mating to earnings … assortative mating to inequality in couple's potential earnings. Our results indicate a strong degree of assortative mating in … France. The correlation coefficient for education is above 0.6. The correlation in earnings is lower but sizable: around 0 …

market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women's earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter … having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …

market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women’s earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter … having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …

Married men earn more than unmarried men. Previous research suggests that marriage itself causes some of the difference …, but includes few men who fathered children out of wedlock. This paper asks whether increasing marriage (and possibly … cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers’ earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a …

This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. Our first contribution is calculating the marriage premium for … single women. Our second contribution is calculating the marriage premium for Turkey’s regions. For men, the wage difference … marriage premium. We found that for men, at younger ages the difference is high. For women, in most of ages single women earn …