This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …

of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

Economists are torn between basically three schools of thoughts where the first theory states that the population …

estimation is illustrated. The nine-county Kentucky study was the first of its type attempted by the Statistics unit of the …

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …