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 …

. Third, time allocations between the United States and Europe are more similar for the prime-age group than for the young and …