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Income Prospects and Age-at-Marriage

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Bergstrom, T
Schoeni, R-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 connot 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.

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Paper provided by RAND - Reprint Series in its series Papers with number 96-18.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: MARRIAGE ; WOMEN ; INCOME DISTRIBUTION;

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J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure

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