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The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings
Author: Grossbard Shoshana
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Add to cart the book of Grossbard ShoshanaPublication date: 11-2014
209 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
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Introduction.- Part A. A Model of Work-In-Household with Privately Consumed Household Goods.- A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage: Macro Model.- A Theory of Allocation of Time in Markets for Labor and Marriage: Multiple Markets for Work-In-Household.- Part B. Labor Supply and Other Time Uses.- Macro-Level Implications for Empirical Analyses of Allocation and Valuation of Time: Income, Wage and Sex Ratio Effects.- Implications for Labor Supply with Multiple Markets for Work-In-Household.- Revisiting Labor Supply Effects of Sex Ratios, Income, Wage. Effects of Marriage-Related Laws.- Labor Supply, Household Production and Common Law Marriage Legislation (with Victoria Vernon).- Labor Supply and Marriage Market Conditions: A Simple Graphic Analysis When household Goods are Publicly Consumed.- Household Production and Racial Intermarriage (with J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and J. Alberto Molina).- Part C. Consumption and Savings.- A Consumer Theory with Competitive Markets for Work-in-Household.- A Theory of Savings, In-Marriage Transfers, and Work-in-Household.
Provides the first comprehensive economic theory of marriage, spanning a wider variety of aspects of marriage including chapters on labor supply of women and the effect of marriage on productivity at work
Surveys an extensive literature on various aspects of marriage written by economists, sociologists, anthropologists and others
Presents both theoretical and empirical analysis on the topics discussed
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras