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The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings.
Shoshana Grossbard
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Description for The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings.
Paperback. This book offers a comprehensive economic theory of marriage. It examines a wide variety of aspects of marriage, including labor supply of women and the effect of marriage on productivity at work. The book presents both theoretical and empirical analysis. Num Pages: 219 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JHBK; JHM; KCC; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 343.
While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book demonstrates how a few core concepts, linked via economic analysis, help explain a multitude of findings based on statistical analyses of data from a wide variety ... Read more
While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book demonstrates how a few core concepts, linked via economic analysis, help explain a multitude of findings based on statistical analyses of data from a wide variety ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781493942503
SKU
V9781493942503
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage. How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings.
“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 ... Read more