Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage

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Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage

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Bergstrom, Ted
Schoeni, Robert F

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This paper provides an empirical investigation of a theoretical model of the marriage market. In the model, women are valued more for their ability to bear children and men are valued more for their ability to make money. Men cannot reveal their labor market ability to potential spouses until they enter the labor force. At the same time, the relevant information for evaluating females as spouses is revealed at a younger age. The model predicts that the income of males will be positively associated with age-at-first-marriage. We find empirical support for the model. However, we also find the association between male earnings and age-at-first-marriage becomes negative for those who married after age 30, which was not predicted by the model. Consistent with the model, we do not find a strong relationship between earnings and age-at-first-marriage among females.

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Volume (Year): 9 (1996)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 115-30
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- Bergstrom, T & Schoeni, R-F, 1996. "Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage," Papers 96-18, RAND - Reprint Series.
- Ted Bergstrom & Bob Schoeni, 1995. "Income Prospects and Age at Marriage," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 1995E, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
- Bergstrom, T. & Schoeni, R., 1992. "Income Prospects and Age at Marriage," Papers 92-10, Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory.

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