We use population data on capital income and wealth holdings for Norway to measure asset positions and wealth returns … and assortative mating on returns is as strong as that on wealth. Third, post-marriage returns on family wealth are … largely explained by the return of the spouse with the highest pre-marriage return. This suggests that family wealth is …

stylized multidimensional matching model which adequately replicates the sorting pattern observed using marginal distributions … than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find …

data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, during our sample period …

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality … large marriage gap: married people earn on average 27 percent more income, and they hold 34 percent more net worth. To … version of the model, I show that positive assortative matching, an effective tax bonus for married couples and directed …