Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

We would like to thank Fadi Hassan, Jeanne Lafortune, Bob Pollak, and conference participants at the “Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status: Exposure, Heritability and Opportunity” at Universidad Carlos III, the Sixth EH-Clio Lab Conference at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, the ColumbiaNYU Joint Conference on Spatial Economics Through the Lens of Economic History, the NBER Summer Institute, the Society of the Economics of the Household; and seminar participants at the Bank of Italy, Bocconi University, Dartmouth College, INSEAD, Nanyang Technical University, National University of Singapore, University of British Columbia, University of Michigan, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Uppsala University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Juan Conde Carvajal provided excellent research assistance. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.