In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on … Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We …

In this paper we investigate the effect of relative income on marital status. We develop an identity model based on … Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and apply it to the marriage decision. The empirical evidence is consistent with the idea that … people are more likely to marry when their incomes approach a financial level associated with idealized norms of marriage. We …

possibility of discriminating between different models of behavior. This is studied for theories of marriage, which crucially … depend on auxiliary assumptions as to what contributes to well-being in marriage. Both applications are empirically tested …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …, changes in assortative mating over time barely move the time trends in household income inequality. The reason is that the …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …

COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth in Iran. The results of the empirical investigation using logistic regressions … suggest that the experience of unemployment due to the pandemic is positively associated with marriage during the pandemic and … the experience of losing a close relative or family member is negatively associated with marriage. In addition, concern …