educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …

at marriage also substantially increased after 1970. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and … the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I explore the extent to which the rise in age at marriage can explain the … that the increase in women's age at marriage can explain at least 60 percent of the decline in the hazard of divorce since …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

This paper explores how marriage prospects affect female human capital investments. I exploit a South African legal … variation in marriage propensity. The findings show that these marital gains are generated through a shift in intra …-household bargaining power rather than improving marriage match quality …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

improved understanding of the relationship between family structure and economic preparation for retirement at earlier stages … retirement at young and mid-adulthood by family context. Additional children were negatively associated with several measures of … potentially long-term implications for their financial security. The results shed light on linkages between family structure and …