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Title: Who Marries Whom and Why

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: This paper proposes and estimates a static transferable utility model of the marriage market. The model generates a non-parametric marriage matching function with spillover effects. It rationalizes the standard interpretation of marriage rate regressions as well as pointing out its limitations. The model was used to estimate US marital behavior in 1971/72 and 1981/82. The marriage matching function estimates show that the gains to marriage for young adults fell substantially over the decade. Unlike con-tridictory marriage rate regression results, the marriage matching function estimates showed that the legalization of abortion had a significant quantitative impact on the fall in the gains to marriage for young males and females.

Url: http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~siow/papers/jpe.pdf

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Authors: Choo, Eugene; Siow, Aloysius

Publisher: University of Toronto

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Topics: Family and Marriage

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