Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners … distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …

average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of …

This paper studies mental health and loneliness in the Netherlands for individuals beyond age 50. The analysis is based …

This paper builds a consumer search model where the cost of going back to stores already searched is explicitly taken … into account. We show that the optimal search rule under costly recall is very different from the optimal search rule under … perfect recall. Under costly recall, the optimal search behaviour is nonstationary and, moreover, the reservation price is not …

This paper analyses the role of information in the search process. Ibuild a simple model of a good with two random … which neither affect expected utility norits variance. These changes have a great impact on the search behaviour …:the customer may start to search the characteristics and buy the goodeven if she did not do so before. The optimal search rule is …

betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …