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Marriage and Marriage Markets [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 This chapter reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio can help explain outcomes such as marriage formation, the intramarriage distribution of consumption goods, labor supply, savings, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Economic models of marriage pioneered by Gary Becker are reviewed in the first section and
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The economics of marriage: Evidence from China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Marriage market imbalances are common in modern society for social and economic reasons, including the increased cost of marriage caused by high housing prices and an imbalance in the number of men and women. We draw on the family economic theory of Gary
Zhitong Gao, Jihong Pang, Hongyong Zhou
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Games, 2018 In this article, we analyze the stability of couples on the marriage market. Recent developments in cooperative game theory allow a new model that uses team games which make it possible to model the marriage market. Coalition structures can model couples.
Tobias Hiller
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the labor-market return, resulting from higher wages, and a marriage-market return, defined as the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract. Men and women may have different incentives to invest in schooling because of different market wages or ...
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundA large proportion of adults in Japan remain unmarried even though they intend to marry during their lifetime. To provide data for policy makers and those searching for partners in the Japanese marriage market, we estimated the number and ...
Cyrus Ghaznavi +6 more
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An economic approach to marriage
Journal of Applied Economics, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to outline an economic approach to marriage. The first part contains an introduction to the economics of a family. The second part analyses the marriage market.
Marek Louzek
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
American Economic Review: Insights, 2017 We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility ...
David H. Autor +4 more
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Marriage migration and women's entry into the German labour market
Journal of Family Research, 2021 Objective: We analyse the employment patterns of childless first-generation migrants to Germany. In particular, we focus on the behaviour of female "marriage migrants". Marriage migrants are defined as individuals who married after their spouse had moved
Cristina Samper, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Modeling Local Variations in Intermarriage
Mathematics, 2022 We utilized all Spanish marriage records available at the municipality level from 2005–2007 to model spatial variations in intermarriage. We constructed a spatial regime zero-inflated Poisson model and grouped-data probit model, with spatially lagged ...
Albert Esteve +2 more
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Marriage Markets and Intermarriage: Exchange in First Marriages and Remarriages [PDF]
Demography, 2018 Abstract Drawing on data from the American Community Survey, we compare patterns of assortative mating in first marriages, remarriages, and mixed-order marriages. We identify a number of ascribed and achieved characteristics that are viewed as resources available for exchange, both as complements and substitutes.
Zhenchao, Qian, Daniel T, Lichter
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