This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using the 1993-95 Japanese Panel Surveys of Consumption, the structural estimation result of a dynamic decision model suggests that women bene...t from labor for...

This paper analyzes marriage market equilibria when the gains from marriage result from joint consumption of household public goods. Assuming a class of utility functions which guarantee transferable utility within marriage, the paper proves that marriage markets will be characterized by positive assortative mating on income. A tendency for positive assortative mating on wages is also demonstra...

This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses leftover situation, age, age differential between husband wife. Taking 30 as a cut-off point, has increased proportion about 1.2%, with 1.8% men 0.6% women. Although problem urban women made eye-catching general public, is much more serious than that women: former arising from true over-supply while latt...

This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China and focuses leftover situation, age, age differential between husband wife. Considering 30 years as cutoff point, has increased proportion to about 1.2%, with 1.8% men 0.6% women. Although general public is aware problem urban women, much more serious than that former situation due large numbers latter matching proce...