Optimal Marriage Fitting for Imperfect Statistics

Noël Bonneuil () and Elena Fursa
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Noël Bonneuil: Institut national d’études démographiques
Elena Fursa: Federal University of South Russia

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2012, vol. 153, issue 2, No 16, 532-545

Abstract: Abstract The reconstruction of the marriage market from imperfect records is solved by the minimization of a distance to the observations under civil status-specific McKendrick dynamics. To do this, the completion each year of the distribution of ages of bride and groom is also obtained by minimization under the constraints of recorded table margins, avoiding the recourse to ad hoc stylized functions. An empirical case study is presented using data from an administrative subdivision in southern Russia for the period 1867–1916.

Keywords: McKendrick equations; Marriage market; Imperfect statistics; Missing data; Stochastic optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10957-011-9970-8

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