A note on marriage market clearing

被引：15

作者：

Neelakantan, Urvi ^{[1
]}

Tertilt, Michele ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Agr & Consumer Econ, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Econ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 2008年 / 101卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Marriage market; Sex ratio; Age gap; Polygyny; Mortality;

D O I：

10.1016/j.econlet.2008.06.017

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We provide a formula for marriage sex ratios based on birth sex ratios and dynamic factors like the marriage age gap and gender-specific mortality. We show that ignoring dynamic considerations can lead to faulty conclusions about scarcity in marriage markets. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：103 / 105

页数：3

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