relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the Italian Household Longitudinal Survey (1997 … that here, the shock provided for a more fundamental change in marriage patterns compared to urban, lower-lying, and less … agricultural provinces where marriage markets might have been more flexible to begin with. …

interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search … frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the …

sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … in marriage formation. …

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

with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently … these higher returns to search. We confirm using U.S. decennial Census and American Community Survey (ACS) data from 1980 …-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

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 …

Using an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets, we establish the existence of male … marriage premium within a given productivity group, as well as a clear ranking of premia across different groups. We find …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … with frictional markets. We build an equilibrium search model where married couples make joint decisions on home production … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing …