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.
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页码：103 / 105
页数：3
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