Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192221 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 238
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
In this paper we discuss a particular marriage model, i.e., a model for the number of marriages for each age combination as a function of the vectors of the number of single men and women in each age group. The model is based on Dagsvik (1998) where it is demonstrated that a specific matching game played at the individual level imply, under specific assumptions about the distribution of the preferences, a convenient expression for the corresponding structural marriage model. Data from the Norwegian Population Register for nine years are applied to estimate the model. We subsequently test the hypothesis that, apart from a random "noise" component, the age-specific parameters change over time according to a common trend. We find that the hypothesis is not rejected by our data.
Subjects: 
Two-sex demographic models
Marriage models
Two-sided matching
JEL: 
C78
J11
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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