A note on marriage market clearing

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 101
Issue: 2
Pages: 103-105

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:101:y:2008:i:2:p:103-105
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-26