Marriage and Marriage Markets

Shoshana Grossbard

No 10312, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: consumption; savings; sex ratio; marriage markets; marriage; labor supply; cohort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 J11 J12 J16 J22 O15 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74

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