We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy … value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … free parameters: the search friction and the utility share of bearing children. We choose their values to match the median …

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of sociability on the age of marriage …. Theoretically, a more sociable individual has higher chances of finding a suitable partner for marriage early in life, and hence is … afford to be more selective in choosing a mate and therefore will tend to postpone marriage until the most suitable partner …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

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

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability ….We suggest explanations for these patterns based in part on differentials in the associations of age at marriage with education …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …