A note on marriage market clearing

Urvi Neelakantan and Michele Tertilt

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 101, issue 2, 103-105

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Marriage; market; Sex; ratio; Age; gap; Polygyny; Mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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