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A sexually unbalanced model of current account imbalances
Du, Qingyuan; Wei, Shang-jin - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976200
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Terms of endearment : an equilibrium model of sex and matching
Arcidiacono, Peter; Beauchamp, Andrew W.; McElroy, Marjorie - 2010
"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We develop a directed search model of relationship formation which can disentangle male and female preferences for types of partners and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738407
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Marital sorting and parental wealth
Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Hurst, Erik; Killewald, Alexandra - 2011
the degree to which spouses sort in the marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models … in log wealth between own and spouse's parents wealth is around 0.4. We show that education accounts for only one …-quarter of this sorting, and also show that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842260
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From assortative to ashortative coupling : men's height, height heterogamy, and relationship dynamics in the United States
Weitzman, Abigail; Conley, Dalton - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412867