Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets, making use of what we label constrained job search. The optimal …We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called “beauty premium”. Our approach relies entirely on search … frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and marriage markets is numerous. Despite this, the … an equilibrium search model where married couples make joint decisions on home production and labor market participation … employed, and in some equilibria a person may search for transitory jobs only to raise the long-term wages of their spouse. In …

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general …

we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice … possible intellectual influences on Becker's theory of marriage, compares Becker's research on marriage with that of some … scholars interested in intra-marriage distribution, and documents that Becker's students at Chicago were more interested in …

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage … search in order to minimize the dissonance caused by the non-adherence to the custom. Once the Welfare state has replaced the …