This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter both because of their household income and because parental human capital determines the expected value of a child's disutility from making an effort to become skilled. We show...

This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring’s parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a...

In many countries of Asia, the Middle-East and Africa the average age at marriage of both men and women has been rising significantly, while the difference between the average marriage age of men and women has been declining. Moreover, marriage patterns display a form of dualism: educated men...

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...

In der Öffentlichkeit ist häufig davon die Rede, dass jede dritte westdeutsche Frau und sogar mehr als 40 % der westdeutschen Akademikerinnen kinderlos bleiben. Diese Angaben zur Kinderlosigkeit beruhen meist auf Auswertungen des Mikrozensus. Die Verwendung des Mikrozensus zur Abschätzung der...

Up to the late 1970's the Sex College Attainment Ratio (SCAR), or ratio of college attainment between men and women, was about 1.6. Assortative mating within education groups in marriages is strong enough in the United States to prevent accounting for the SCAR feature based on males' higher...

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children’s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household-level fixed effects to deal with the fact that...