Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage

How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvShoshana Grossbard

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It is hoped that readers of this book will improve their understanding of how marriage works to help us design better economic and social policies as well as help people live better and happier lives, making the book of interest to not only economists but sociologists and anthropologists as well.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-11-25
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt474 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor209
Upplaga2015
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461416227

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

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.

"The book does give fascinating insights into the development of the Chicagoan approach to family household economics, as well as showing a characteristic ability to apply relatively simple price theoretic models to explain a wide range of empirical phenomena. It can be recommended to researchers, in the social sciences generally as well as in economics, for its insights into the development of the ideas of the 'Chicago School' in this area of economics ... ." (Patricia Apps, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. LIII, December, 2015)