Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … been empowered through access to education, credit, healthcare, and birth control; changes in ownership laws; the …

Gender matters in economics—for even with today’s technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved … been empowered through access to education, credit, healthcare, and birth control; changes in ownership laws; the …

, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …

evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …

its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …

association between average formal education and the share of married women. This finding is in line with recent theoretical and …

"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … underachieving; by considering variation in the impact of marriage timing by education and by stage of the life course; and by …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …