Hamilton, Gillian; Siow, Aloysius - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 4, pp. 549-575
frictions to aggregate marriage behavior in 18th century Quebec. The reduced form estimates show that a simple random matching … model of the marriage market, in which there are gains to assortative matching and women may leave the marriage market at a … higher rate than men, can explain these data. The estimates also show that the marriage market was segmented by social status …