making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will … misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will … misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will … misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …—specialization differences, by type of marriage, are insignificant when the immigrant has post-college education. At lower levels of immigrant …

constructed from CDC life table data shows that the randomness of mortality and the overlap between spouses' age …-specific mortality distributions imply dramatically long life spans for surviving spouses. The 4 x 4 longevity matrices show that … longevity effects are magnified at the level of the couple by assortative marriage …

to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect … to Taiwan after a civil war in the late 1940s were subject to a marriage ban. When the ban was lifted in 1959, the great … influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject …

; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …

women make joint and sequential decisions about school attendance, work, marriage, fertility and welfare participation. We … observed minority-majority differences in behavior can be attributed to differences in labor market opportunities, marriage …