This paper introduces the" separate spheres" bargaining model, a new model of distribution
within marriage. It differs from divorce threat bargaining models (eg, Manser-Brown, McElroy-
Horney) in that the threat point is not divorce but a noncooperative equilibrium within ...

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market
and divorce legislation on household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio in the
marriage market and the rules governing divorce are examples of “distribution factors.” ...

03 We show how comparisons between the within-twin correlations of human capital
outcomes across identical and nonidentical twins can be used to identify the variability in the
individual-specific component of endowments and the responsiveness of schooling to ...

We present a model in which investment in schooling generates two kinds of returns: the
labor-market return, resulting from higher wages, and a marriage-market return, defined as
the impact of schooling on the marital surplus share one can extract. Men and women may ...

Background Recent research has suggested that the number of available partners to men or
women has profound effects on the basic structure of society, including social, cultural,
economic, and psychological components (Guttentag and Secord, 1983). Imbalances in ...

Abstract Using the 1970, 1980 1990 Censuses, the authors investigate the impact of labor
and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16–24).
They first estimate the effects on marriage of personal characteristics and Metropolitan ...

In 1965 the United States rewrote its immigration laws, and immigration increased sharply
as a result. The immigrants and the children of immigrants from the post-1965 period are
slowly becoming more influential in US life; the largest of these groups are the Mexican ...

... the book. Chapters discuss matchmaking, home production, household size, the
marriage market, the marriage contract, the cost of and demand for children, birth
timing, intergenerational issues, and policy issues. After the ...

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program provides aid for over 3.5
million families in the United States, mostly families without fathers. Several studies have
addressed the extent to which providing income in the form of AFDC increases the ...

The growing number of singles has been accompanied by a proliferation of social
introduction services including singles ads, video dating, and matchmakers. This paper
analyzes these services by their underlying functions in the marriage market. These ...