Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected … individuals match on traits correlated with the choice of education, such as innate ability, tastes or family environment. Another … possible explanation is that the choice of college education causally impacts whether and whom one marries, either because of …

dynastic framework with human capital accumulation. The study finds that accounting for differences in taxation and education …

. 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 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 …

are also 1.8% more likely to graduate from upper secondary school and have more stable marriage market outcomes as adults …

In this paper we estimate the marriage market returns to being admitted to a higher ranked (i.e. more 'elite …