Marriage and Marriage Markets

This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship, divorce, and intermarriage. Predictions are based on Demand and Supply analyses by Becker and the author. Evidence in support of the predictions is reported, most of it based on recent literature.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Grossbard, Shoshana
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	marriage \| marriage markets \| sex ratio \| savings \| consumption \| labor supply \| cohort

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 10312
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	875039960 [GVK] hdl:10419/149171 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10312 [RePEc]
Classification:	E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment ; J11 - Demographic Trends and Forecasts ; J12 - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; R2 - Household Analysis
Source:	EconStor

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