 Marriage and the CityPieter A. Gautier (), Michael Svarer () and C. N. Teulings () No 2005-01, CAM Working Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics Abstract: Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the 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 singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is that attractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Those predictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset. New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ure Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kud:kuieca:2005_01 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in CAM Working Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics |
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