EAN: 9781461416227

THE MARRIAGE MOTIVE A PRICE THEORY OF MARRIAGE ...

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 of cultures. 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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