The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of … available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband …

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 …

-cycle profiles of the age gaps at first marriage; and that gender differences in fecundity account for these profiles being steeper … of this age gap is increasing both for the grooms and for the brides, and it is steeper for the grooms. To address these … issues we construct a general equilibrium model economy in which people search for spouses, and they marry because they value …

This article reviews the developments in frictional matching models from 1990 to 2010, exploring how search frictions … different attacks on the existence of equilibrium required for these search and matching models. …

In this article we provide a simple model of the marriage market where singles search for spouses. In our model economy …. And that studying the marriage decision without modelling explicitly the roles played by age and by fecundity, as has been … earnings. We show that modelling the marriage decision in a very simple model economy is sufficient to account for much of the …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

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 …

) on others in the marriage market. We consider a model in which there are three types of men and women according to … there are sufficiently few overconfident men/women in the marriage market. …