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 …

comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women … age composition of missing women disappear. …