We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have … women assess each other through an index combining these various attributes, so the matching is one-dimensional. We estimate …

estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and …We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

, there is one essential factor that affects family size throughout the world. This is education. School has decreased … and scarcely without modernization, except for the school itself. Education, as we know it, preceded industrialization and … intrusive urbanization in Europe too. It was not until very late (1870) that attempts at introducing compulsory education were …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching …