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 …

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 …

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 …

We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and … women are involved in random sequential search for a partner. Men are seen as breadwinners in the family, and therefore in … the labour market unemployed men carry out a constrained sequential search for jobs. We establish that when divorce …

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

This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where agents have multiple attributes and general …

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … welfare gains but gives rise to large wage differentials. -- job search ; wage bargaining ; wage differentials ; unemployment …

The empirical literature addressing links between the labor and the marriage markets is numerous and varied. Despite … with frictional markets. We build an equilibrium search model where married couples make joint decisions on home production … and labor market participation. We then analyze the implications of our results for a frictional marriage market allowing …