This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …

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 …

value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … their spouses. The matching function depends on the single sex-ratios which are endogenous. Our model economy has only two … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra …-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to …

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples …We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower …

for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age and hence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. This … completely hold, especially in modern times. This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in …, the average age at first marriage and the pattern of the sex ratio of single men to single women over different age groups …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that … beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as … cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital …

assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical … also discusses models of the determinants of marriage. The study then overviews specific statistical techniques that have … been applied in empirical analyses of the effects of marriage, including standard regression, instrumental variables …