We construct a model of household decision-making in which agents consume a private and
a public good, interpreted as children's welfare. Children's utility depends on their human …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …