Pieter A. Gautier () (Faculty of Economics and Business Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Michael Svarer () (University of Arhus) Coen N. Teulings () (Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, SEO)
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Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is that attractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Those predictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset.
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Pieter Gautier & Michael Svarer & Coen Teulings, 2005.
"Marriage and the City,"
CAM Working Papers
2005-01, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics.
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Gautier, Pieter A & Svarer, Michael & Teulings, Coen N, 2005.
"Marriage and the City,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
4939, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Gautier, Pieter A. & Svarer, Michael & Teulings, Coen N., 2005.
"Marriage and the City,"
IZA Discussion Papers
1491, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Find related papers by JEL classification: J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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Pieter A. Gautier & Michael Svarer & Coen N. Teulings, 2007.
"Sin City,"
IZA Discussion Papers
2632, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Gautier, Pieter A & Svarer, Michael & Teulings, Coen N, 2007.
"Sin City?,"
CEPR Discussion Papers
6170, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Pieter A. Gautier & Michael Svarer & Coen N. Teulings, 2007.
"Sin City?,"
CAM Working Papers
2007-01, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics.
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Pieter A. Gautier & Michael Svarer & Coen N. Teulings, 2007.
"Sin City?,"
Economics Working Papers
2007-01, School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus.
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