divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational structure of marriage. Based on marriage and … divorce certificate data covering 1970-1988, we provide new evidence on the evolution of the educational structure of marriage … affect the educational structure of marriage: it made generally unstable hypogamous couples (women marrying less educated …

and marriage markets can result in a "gendered" equilibrium which is consistent with observed empirical regularities: men … earn more than women, and their attachment to the labor market is stronger. The equilibrium also exhibits a marriage wage …

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 …

daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from …

social insurance. We focus on the Vietnamese’s beliefs in marriage fortune predictions by the Taoist astrological system Tử … Vi. First, we estimate a structural model of assortative marriage matching and show that such beliefs’ importance in … marriage formation amounts to 6.5% of that of the entire age and education profile. Second, we estimate the effect of …

theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …