Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2011
Summary:
We explore how gender bias in career opportunities affects matching in a marriage market with search frictions and where an individual’s fitness decays with age. We document a “being left on the shelf” effect where young singles, who find the marriage market rapidly thins with age, rush into early partnership. Singles with stronger career opportunities, however, have a greater option value to defer marriage. More equal career opportunities for women (captured by greater schooling and better occupations) potentially explain the recent emergence of toyboy unions, in which the woman is at least 5 years older than her partner.
Published in
International Economic Review
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 52 , p.825 -853
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2011.00651.x
ISSN
206598
Subject
Notes
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