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008 050928s2005 gw sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005618977
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHD5701
100 1 $aIyigun, Murat.
245 10 $aBuilding the family nest$h[electronic resource] :$bpre-marital investments, marriage markets and spousal allocations /$cby Murat Iyigun, Randall P. Walsh.
260 $aBonn, Germany :$bIZA,$c[2005]
490 1 $aDiscussion paper ;$vno. 1752
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 9/28/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to identify the fundamental determinants of endogenously determined and maritally sustainable intra-marital sharing rules. In particular, we find that all sharing rules along the assortative order support unconditionally efficient outcomes where both pre-marital investments and intra-household allocations are efficient. The efficiency of both pre-marital choices and household allocations then enables us to show that, for each couple, the marriage market generates a unique and maritally sustainable sharing rule that is a function of the distribution of pre-marital endowments and the sex ratios in the market"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
650 0 $aMarriage$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aHouseholds$xEconomic aspects.
700 1 $aWalsh, Randall P.,$d1963-
830 0 $aDiscussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;$vno. 1752
856 40 $uhttp://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=1752