This paper explores the relationship between household type and asset accumulation. Households distinguish principally along standard demographic lines -whether they marry, divorce, seperate or become widowed. To accomplish this goal, we rely on two household surveys with high quality wealth...

Female age at first marriage and male wage inequality have increased steadily since the late 1960s in the United States. This paper uses a model of female marital search to demonstrate why these two trends could be related. Elementary job search theory, under risk-neutrality, predicts search...