This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality …

began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …

tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …

observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …

This paper documents that a shift from a selective to a comprehensive education system had implications for marriage … market outcomes. By exploiting an education reform in Sweden, I show that comprehensive education reduced assortative mating … comprehensive education exposed the rich to a more diverse set of peers and therefore weakened their taste for homogamy. This …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family … the highincome earner may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by the marriage. Redistributive income …. Redistributive taxation is shown both to further and stabilize marriage. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …