its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …

inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education … model where educational and marriage decisions are endogenous. Two key assumptions are made: marriage requires a fixed cost … consistent with our empirical result that exogenous delays in marriage age caused by minimum age laws decreased the educational …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in postwar marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …

gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …

evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low … level of education are increasingly sorting into internally homogenous marriages. When looking within the group of college …

its byproduct, as better education and personal characteristics could be both economically beneficial and increase the …