We study the cultural integration of immigrants, estimating a structural model of marital matching along ethnic … dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …

in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …

generates plausible elasticities of labor supply. Eliminating marriage-related provisions drastically increases the …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By …

before they enter marriage. The correspondence assumption provides a plausible account of the genesis of household technology …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

We develop and estimate a dynamic model to study the impact of student debt on education, career, and marriage market … marriage prospects, career prospects, and investments in educational quality of female lawyers. The analysis also provides new …

, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have been ignoring women and marriage in setting up structural … models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both … we ask whether there are other calibration strategies or relatively simple models of marriage that can improve the fit of …