When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners … distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search … frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …

is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is …