their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring’s parents-in-law. Using the … mating in the marriage market. Substantially higher estimates are reported when measurement error is accounted for. We also …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for …

. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for …This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

counterfactual Gini coefficients that would prevail if marriage matching was random in terms of education. For China in 2005, the … inequality of per capita household income would drop from 0.508 to 0.476 if marriage was random. For urban areas in 2009 …, assortative marriage in education also increased the Gini coefficients by around 2 percentage points (from 0.316 to 0.337). The …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage … explain about 1/3 of the rise in income inequality. The intensive margin (educational assortative mating) has only played a …

have resulted in lower birth and marriage rates. Increasing educational attainment may affect marriage patterns through the … growing supply of partners with higher education levels and changing preferences over their partner's education level. Using … administrative records on births and marriages, we quantify changes in the relative education levels within married and non …