Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting

We thank participants at the STLAR Conference at the St. Louis Fed 2019, the Cowles Macroeconomics Conference 2019 at Yale, UPenn, University of Washington St. Louis, Frankfurt University, the H2D2 Research Day at the University of Michigan, the Search and Matching Workshop at the University of Essex, the Conference on Competitive Equilibrium with Gross Substitutes, with Applications to Problems in Matching, Pricing, and Market Design at Brown University, UT Austin, Universidad de San Andrés, University of Michigan, CSWEP Paper Sessions: Gender Topics at the ASSA/AEA 2021 Meetings, Midwest Economics Association 2021 Annual Meeting, University of Maryland, UC San Diego, University of Nottingham, University of Melbourne, University College London, University of Otago, the University of Chile, Cornell, University of Toulouse, University of Western Ontario, Georgetown University, UCLA, Stanford, the Society of Economics of the Household Annual Conference 2021, the Western Economic Association International 96th Annual Conference, the IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists 2021, the WELAC (LACEA) Workshop on Gender Inequality, the NBER Economics of Culture and Institutions Meeting, the 2022 Cowles Conferences on Labor and Public Economics at Yale, and University of Chicago for useful comments. We thank Hector Chade for very helpful comments on an earlier draft of the paper. The paper also benefitted from discussions with Joseph Altonji, Limor Golan, and Esteban Peralta. We thank Valentina Goetz for outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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