Marriage and Marriage Markets

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10312

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: marriage ; marriage markets ; sex ratio ; savings ; consumption ; labor supply ; cohort

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grossbard, Shoshana
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149171
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET