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 …

sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimates the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age, and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling results in a delay of marriage by 1.6 years. Marrying one …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling resulted in a delay of marriage by 1.5 years. Marrying one …

for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age and hence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. This … completely hold, especially in modern times. This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in …, the average age at first marriage and the pattern of the sex ratio of single men to single women over different age groups …

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 …