A behavioral two‐sex marriage model |
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| Authors: | John K Dagsvik Helge Brunborg Ane S Flaatten |
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| Institution: | 1. Research Department , Statistics Norway , P.O. Box 8131 Dep., Oslo, N‐0033, Norway E-mail: john.dagsvik@ssb.no;2. Research Department , Statistics Norway , P.O. Box 8131 Dep., Oslo, N‐0033, Norway |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we propose a particular marriage model, i.e., a model for the number of marriages for each age combination as a function of the vectors of the number of single men and women in each age group. The model is based on Dagsvik (2000) where it is demonstrated that a general type of matching behavior imply, under specific assumptions about the distribution of the preferences of the women and men, a convenient expression for the corresponding marriage model. Data from the Norwegian Population Register for nine years are applied to estimate the model. We subsequently test the hypothesis that, apart from a random “noise”; component, the age‐specific parameters of the model change over time according to a common trend. We find that the hypothesis is not rejected by our data. |
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| Keywords: | Two‐sex demographic models Marriage models Two‐sided matching |
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