A behavioral two‐sex marriage model

EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE ADVANTAGE OF HbS OVER HbA IN THE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA

“…We do agree with him, since to the best of the author's knowledge, no definite marriage equation has been derived so far and authors such as Castillo-Chavez [6], Goodman [14], and Pruss and Schappacher [21] have worked relentlessly on pair formation or models involving the usage of marriage functions. The work of Dagsvik [9] and Dagsvik et al [10] is probably the most recent, with some level of commendable improvements. In the latter and in contrast to earlier works, the model is derived from assumptions about the behavior of women and men in the marriage market.…”

Optimal Marriage Fitting for Imperfect Statistics

“…Visnevskij [13] also characterized European Russia in 1880 as not practicing family limitation, as having a high fertility level, an early nuptiality and a very low definitive celibacy (under 5 percent). He estimated a standardized proportion married of 0.70 for European Russia, while we find this [14] formulated a behavioral theory for the marriage market and the implied two-sex model, adapting the two-sided matching discussed in [15]. Under the assumption that the utility of man …”

A Comment on Schoen's (1981) Harmonic Mean Marriage Model

“…Marriage functions have been studied actively since the early 1970s (Martcheva and Milner, 2001) and continue to be discussed, ranging from analysis of various functional forms to empirically-based approaches such as the optimal fitting method recently proposed by Bonneuil and Fursa (2012). One of the seminal works (Dagsvik et al, 2001) is that of Schoen (1981), which describes a two-sex marriage model based on the harmonic mean. The Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters) in March 2012 listed 43 citations of this publication, which indicates its significance.…”