TY - BOOK ID - 4861791 TI - The Marriage Motive: A Price Theory of Marriage : How Marriage Markets Affect Employment, Consumption, and Savings PY - 2015 SN - 9781461416234 1461416221 9781461416227 146141623X PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Economics/Management Science. KW - Labor Economics. KW - Family. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Anthropology. KW - Microeconomics. KW - Economics. KW - Labor economics. KW - Economie politique KW - Economie du travail KW - Micro-économie KW - Anthropologie KW - Marriage KW - -Equilibrium (Economics) KW - 330 KW - Disequilibrium (Economics) KW - Economic equilibrium KW - General equilibrium (Economics) KW - Partial equilibrium (Economics) KW - Economics KW - Stagnation (Economics) KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Families KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - Economic aspects. KW - Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse KW - Married people KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Economic aspects KW - Employment KW - 330 Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse KW - Sociology. KW - Families. KW - Social aspects. KW - DGE (Economics) KW - DSGE (Economics) KW - Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (Economics) KW - SDGE (Economic theory) KW - Price theory KW - Human beings KW - Families—Social aspects. KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Primitive societies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4861791 AB - While this book contains numerous facts and empirical findings and touches on policy issues, its main contribution to the existing literature lies in the theoretical perspective it offers. The core of this book is a general equilibrium theory of labor and marriage presented in Chapter 2, which provides the conceptual framework for the rest of the chapters. Two major implications of the theory are sex ratio effects and compensating differentials in marriage. The book demonstrates how a few core concepts, linked via economic analysis, help explain a multitude of findings based on statistical analyses of data from a wide variety of cultures. It is hoped that readers of this book will improve their understanding of how marriage works to help us design better economic and social policies as well as help people live better and happier lives, making the book of interest to not only economists but sociologists and anthropologists as well. ER -