Arbeitspapier

Marriage and the City

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are thereforeprepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, themarriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extendthe 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 thatsingles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples aremore likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is thatattractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Thosepredictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 05-015/3

Classification
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Subject
Marriage
search
mobility
city
Wohnungswechsel
Landflucht
Suchtheorie
Ehe

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gautier, Pieter A.
Svarer, Michael
Teulings, Coen N.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Tinbergen Institute
(where)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(when)
2005

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Gautier, Pieter A.
  • Svarer, Michael
  • Teulings, Coen N.
  • Tinbergen Institute

Time of origin

  • 2005

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