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dc.contributor.author | Giolito, Eugenio P. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:13:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:13:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20317 | - |
dc.description.abstract | It is commonly observed that over time and across societies, women tend to marry oldermen. The traditional explanation for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age andhence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. This explanation, however,involves an implicit assumption about female specialization in home production - anassumption that does not completely hold, especially in modern times.This paper shows that a marriage market equilibrium where women marry earlier in life thanmen can be achieved without making any assumptions about the wage process or genderroles. The only driving force in this model is the asymmetry in fecundity horizons betweenmen and women. When the model is calibrated with Census Data, the average age at firstmarriage and the pattern of the sex ratio of single men to single women over different agegroups mimics the patterns observed in developed countries during the last decade (e.g.France, the U.S. and Sweden). | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x1082 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D83 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J12 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | marriage markets | en |
dc.subject.keyword | search | en |
dc.subject.keyword | sex ratio | en |
dc.subject.stw | Ehe | en |
dc.subject.stw | Suchtheorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Geschlecht | en |
dc.subject.stw | Fruchtbarkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Overlapping Generations | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.title | A Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 384013112 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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