does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …

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 …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss a theoretical model … in which the (negative) social attitudes towards working women might contribute towards the lower marriage rate of …