@article{724565,
      recid = {724565},
      author = {Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana,},
      title = {The marriage motive a price theory of marriage : how  marriage markets affect employment, consumption, and  savings / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/724565},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1623-4},
}