The Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Women's Marriage Outcomes
利用19世纪末20世纪初美国数据，通过名字推断家庭社会经济地位，发现女性结婚概率和丈夫社会经济地位存在梯度且随时间扩大，区域职业结构差异和城市化解释了大部分变化。
Abstract We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands, which widens over this period. Regional divergence in occupational structure explains half of the divergence in the probability of marriage, and most of the increase in marital sorting. Urbanization and the associated improvement in women's labor market opportunities drive most of these differences.