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dc.contributor.authorGiolito, Eugenio P.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:13:13Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:13:13Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20317-
dc.description.abstractIt 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.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1082en
dc.subject.jelD83en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmarriage marketsen
dc.subject.keywordsearchen
dc.subject.keywordsex ratioen
dc.subject.stwEheen
dc.subject.stwSuchtheorieen
dc.subject.stwGeschlechten
dc.subject.stwFruchtbarkeiten
dc.subject.stwOverlapping Generationsen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleA Search Model of Marriage with Differential Fecundity-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn384013112en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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