Preliminary and incomplete (empirical work will be presented at seminar): Marriage Matching, Risk Sharing and Family Labor Supplies: An Empirical Framework

The paper integrates marriage matching with the collective model of spousal labor supplies with full risk sharing. It derives observable implications of how marriage market conditions a¤ect spousal labor supplies. In addition to sex ratio which is an indirect measure, it provides a direct measure of changes in marriage market conditions. The framework also clari…es the identifying assumptions necessary to estimate causal e¤ects of marriage market conditions on spousal labor supplies. The empirical section of the paper tests for marriage market e¤ects on spousal labor supplies using data from a panel of US cities. Seitz thanks the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for …nancial support.