This paper accepts the thesis that marriage decisions reflect rational behavior based on weighing benefits and costs. It develops a concept of a marriage price that measures the excess services one spouse provides to the other when there are differences in the number of men and women seeking...

When two groups of workers are imperfect substitutes, a minimum wage increase does not necessarily increase discriminatory hirings. A Becker model with imperfect substitutes demonstrates that discrimination is determined by the rate of change of substitutability between the two groups. Only if...