When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of … available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband …

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 …

show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears …We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy …

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 Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of … available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband …

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 …

show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears …We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy …