We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …

relationship histories, consisting of about 35,000 young Danish men observed before and after their first marriage or cohabitation … indicate that a part of the marriage or cohabitation premium is not due to marriage or cohabitation itself, but to fatherhood …

, marriage raises wages and job stability. To project the sequential effects linking job stability, marital status, and earnings …, we simulate the impacts of shocks that raise preferences for marriage and that increase education. Feedback effects cause … the simulated wage gains from marriage to cumulate over time, indicating that long-run marriage wage premiums exceed …

for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age and hence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. This … completely hold, especially in modern times. This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in …, the average age at first marriage and the pattern of the sex ratio of single men to single women over different age groups …

rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive …