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This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …
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An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over multi-dimensional characteristics. Importantly, the model suggests specific testable assumptions that allow researchers to uncover marginal rates of substitution (MRS) between...
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well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners lead to marriage with a woman from a poorer country. 2. Because of … international marriage market than they could hope to attract within Germany. The analysis uses data from the German Socio …-related "marriage squeeze" encountered by German men older than 30 years. Only on account of their age do these men struggle to find a …
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the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, with half of men smoke while few women … for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … demonstrate this pattern. Coping with the marriage market pressure is a more plausible pathway linking the observed skewed sex …
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We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage …
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