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Eugene Choo¹, Aloysius Siow

¹Department of Economics, University of Toronto, 150 St. George Street, M5S 3G7 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. eugene.choo@utoronto.ca

|October 21, 2006

Summary

Changes in population supply, like gender mortality differences and the baby boom, alter marriage market gains. Scarcity of men modestly reduced women

Area of Science:

Economics
Demography
Sociology

Background:

Marriage and cohabitation patterns are influenced by population dynamics.
Understanding individual gains from marriage and cohabitation is key to analyzing marital behavior.
Previous models often struggled to account for changing population supplies and their distributional effects.

Purpose of the Study:

To model how changes in population supply affect marital patterns using a behavioral marriage matching function.
To estimate systematic gains from marriage and cohabitation relative to remaining single.
To quantify the impact of gender mortality differences and the baby boom on Canadian marital behavior.

Main Methods:

Utilized a nonparametric, behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects.

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The model estimates gains to marriage and cohabitation, which are invariant to population supply changes.

Fitted the model to observed cross-sectional marriage matching distributions in Canada.

Main Results:

Changes in population supply redistribute gains between partners rather than altering total gains.
Higher male mortality rates (making men scarcer) modestly decreased women's welfare and increased men's welfare in the marriage market.
The baby boom increased older men's marriage market gains while decreasing middle-aged women's gains.

Conclusions:

Behavioral marriage matching functions can capture complex marital dynamics influenced by population shifts.
Population supply changes have significant distributional consequences on individual welfare within the marriage market.
Historical demographic events like the baby boom have lasting impacts on marital behavior and associated economic gains.