economic activity and matching. …

economic activity and matching …

This paper uses a structural approach to examine who matches with whom. A two-sided matching model that allows for … marital sorting in response to marriage market flexibility and agents' preferences is utilized. Estimation is based on … imbedding the numerical solution of a matching model within a maximum-likelihood procedure. Results using the Panel Study of …

The objective of this paper is to apply a matching model to identify structural differences contributing to black …/white discrepancies in intermarriage behavior. I propose a measurement of type for each individual, and I also propose a general matching … marriage offers. This accounts for 30 percent of the intermarriage rate difference. The key compensating differential in family …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …

This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as … well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …

to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended the rights to unmarried fathers. We develop a theoretical model of … the effect of custody regime on marriage and test the model's predictions using a unique data set that merges custody law … data with data from the Current Population Survey and Vital Statistics. We find that, under marriage non-neutrality, the …

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how … born in the fourth quarter are more likely to be married than never married (marriage more likely than cohabitation), while …

This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the … trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and spousal decision-making after a marriage has …