College-educated women face an increasingly daunting marriage market, according to an emerging ... Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics. "The pool of men historically ...

More than in other disciplines, success depends on a few high-stakes events. Job-market candidates are evaluated on a single ...

But the data suggest there’s more going on here than economics. Culture also shapes who is getting married and starting a family today. Specifically, there is one group of American women for whom both ...

He’s a professor of economics at Cornell and the ... which side of the market is driving the decline in marriage rates between non-college Americans. And so I think it is important, exactly ...

Citations: Matouschek, Niko, Imran Rasul. 2008. The Economics of the Marriage Contract: Theories and Evidence. Journal of Law and Economics. 59-110.

Her research interests are in the fields of labor economics and demography. She has studied how unexpected economic shocks affect marital dissolution. In addition, further research has explored the ...