There is strong assortative mating by field of study. To examine to which extent this due self selection or a causal effect access specific ”marriage markets”, we use data from participants in admission lotteries four oversubscribed studies the Netherlands. For each studies, find that winning compliers an lottery are significantly more likely than losing have partner study, whereas only margina...

Israel’s 1994 adoption of free in vitro fertilization (IVF) provides a natural experiment for how fertility time horizons impact women’s marriage timing and other outcomes. We find substantial increase average age at first following the policy change, using both men Arab-Israeli women as comparison groups. This shift appears to be driven by increased marriages older younger delaying marriage. A...

Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to right of 0.5 distribution households according female share total earnings, which they attribute existence gender identity norm. We provide an alternative explanation for this discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we show emerges as result equalization convergence earning...

Here, we report a new di(hydroxyphenyl)imidazolate ligand with an N2O2 donor set synthesized by modified Debus–Radziszewski procedure. Its binuclear nickel(II) complexes feature weak antiferromagnetic interaction J12 = −3.16 cm−1 between the two ions identified magnetometry measurements. As follows from cyclic voltammetry experiments and DFT calculations, they undergo ligand-centered oxidation ...

We construct a time series of college attendance patterns for the United States and document reversal: family background was better predictor before World War II, but academic ability afterward. model choice that explains this reversal. The model’s central mechanism is an exogenous surge leads colleges to be oversubscribed, institute selective admissions, raise their quality relative peers, as ...

This paper presents the ®rst attempts by economists to estimate a random utility maximisation model for the choice of desired involvement level in heterosexual relationships. A sample of newspaper `personal' advertisements is used to estimate a multinomial logit. Age is found to reduce the net probabiblity of seeking a casual relationship. A number of variables are found to be signi®cant determ...

This article follows a suggestion made by Piero Sraffa in the late 1920s about writing of his book that was published 1960—a he did not follow. The consisted history political economy, starting with ideas French Physiocrats, and its further development Adam Smith David Ricardo. intended as an introduction to 1960 book. concludes brief discussion ‘central propositions’ book, seen rigorous theore...

We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes for the extended family: dynasty. A dataset including entire Swedish population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, spouses’ siblings. Using various measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates underestimate by at least one-thi...