liberal areas were much less likely to experience a birth or marriage as a minor, invested more in education, and ended up in …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

the same ethnicity. Finally, assortative matching on education in the marriage market suggests that immigrants may be … some of its additional implications. -- interethnic marriage ; human capital ; second-generation immigrants …

by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a native, a measure of social integration, on dropout rates of … high school than immigrants that marry other immigrants. Moreover, gender differences in the effect of marriage to a native … disappear in specifications which control for the endogeneity of the marriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; immigration …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …