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 …

We analyze models where agents search for partners to form relationships (employment, marriage, etc.), and may or may … not continue searching for different partners while matched. Matched agents are less inclined to search if their match … more inclined to search, potentially making instability a self-fulfilling prophecy. We show this can generate multiple …

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 …

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

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 …