The "Wedding-Ring"

Francesco Billari, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Thomas Fent and Belinda Aparicio Diaz
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Belinda Aparicio Diaz: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Demographic Research, 2007, vol. 17, issue 3, 59-82

Abstract: In this paper we develop an agent-based marriage model based on social interaction. We build an population of interacting agents whose chances of marrying depend on the availability of partners, and whose willingness to marry depends on the share of relevant others in their social network who are already married. We then let the typical aggregate age pattern of marriage emerge from the bottom-up. The results of our simulation show that micro-level hypotheses founded on existing theory and evidence on social interaction can reproduce age-at-marriage patterns with both realistic shape and realistic micro-level dynamics.

Keywords: marriage; models; social interaction; micro-macro; age at marriage; agent-based computational demography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.3

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