strategies are implemented by the less advantaged males in their origin marriage market (latter-borns or from lower social class …

strategies are implemented by the less advantaged males in their origin marriage market (latter-borns or from lower social class …

less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

less competitive marriage market for families with daughters vs. those with sons. As a result, such families have lower …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … of the marriage market to derive several implications of our empirical findings: (i) husbands’ and wives’ incomes are … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching …