The paper surveys the Choo Siow (CS) marriage matching model and its extensions. CS derives a behavioral marriage … supplies respond to changing marriage market conditions. Marriage market tightness, the ratio of unmarried type i men to … unmarried type j women is a sufficient statistic for marriage market conditions for those types of individuals. The hypothesis …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The paper investigates how marriage rates and the gains to marriage are affected by city size in three societies … marriage rates in all three societies. There are small decreasing returns to scale effects in China and the US. The paper … rejects the presence of a thick market externality in marriage markets for all three societies …

frictions to aggregate marriage behavior in 18th century Quebec. The reduced form estimates show that a simple random matching … model of the marriage market, in which there are gains to assortative matching and women may leave the marriage market at a … higher rate than men, can explain these data. The estimates also show that the marriage market was segmented by social status …