JL García, JJ Heckman… - Journal of Political …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper demonstrates the long-term intra-and intergenerational benefits of the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, which targeted disadvantaged African American …
Does easier divorce affect who marries whom? I exploit time variation in the adoption of unilateral divorce across the US and show it increases assortative matching among …
This paper analyzes newly collected life-cycle panel data on the original participants of the pioneering HighScope Perry Preschool Project (PPP) social experiment through late midlife …
We study assortative mating of Norwegian parents over five decades and its consequences for offspring outcomes. Parents are characterised by the earnings decile of their parents (the …
H Holmlund - Journal of Human Resources, 2022 - jhr.uwpress.org
This work investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of …
Using a new database of 1.7 million marriage records for England 1837-2021 we estimate assortment by occupational status in marriage, and the intergenerational correlation of …
C Low - Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Throughout the twentieth century, the relationship between women's human capital and men's income was nonmonotonic: while college-educated women married richer spouses …
We investigate the causal effect of education on spousal education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate reduced-form linear matching …
PA Goel, R Barua - Journal of demographic economics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study marital assortative mating in education and its relation to dowry in India. There are four main results and contributions of this paper. First, instrumental variable estimates using …