male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

inequality between couples. …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create … stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with more education, if educated parents have a comparative advantage in … educated mothers in states with a larger increase in the return to education are more likely to be married, less likely to …

education, income) and more. I find little variety and thereby surface a notable regularity in US socio demography: there is a … average. This holds not just for standard characteristics but also for those directly related to marriage like children and …

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 …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage … explain about 1/3 of the rise in income inequality. The intensive margin (educational assortative mating) has only played a …

are also 1.8% more likely to graduate from upper secondary school and have more stable marriage market outcomes as adults …

tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …