A New Estimator of Search Duration and Its Application to the Marriage Market

verfasst von

Pavel Jelnov

Abstract

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was shown to be a sum of a skewed term, possibly related to search, and a normally distributed residual. I estimate search duration as the expected skewed term. I find that in the American data this term does not positively correlate with male income inequality and female education.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Arbeitsökonomik

Externe Organisation(en)

Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Band

80

Seiten

1089-1116

Anzahl der Seiten

28

ISSN

0305-9049

Publikationsdatum

12.2018

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Sozialwissenschaften (sonstige), Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie, Statistik, Wahrscheinlichkeit und Ungewissheit

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12248 (Zugang: Offen)