We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

regarding a positive or negative effect from education on marital decisions. In this paper the impact of education on marriage … no effect on the probability of marriage dissolution. This finding demonstrates that the relationship between education …-broken marriages, it is not education by itself one of the mechanisms leading to better marriage outcomes. …

Despite extensive research on nonmarket returns to education, direct and spillover effects on mental health are widely … unstudied. This study is the first to analyze heterogeneous intergenerational effects of children's education on parents' mental … schooling reforms. Increasing children's education reduces parents' long-term probability of developing depression. Fathers and …

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …

The gender education gap has undergone a transition in the post-war period, from favoring men to favoring women. As a … this paper, we argue that the combined effect of mating on the marriage market and life time labor supply decisions can … early employment choices. To analyze this mechanism, we formulate a dynamic life cycle model of marriage and divorce, with …