TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Jelnov, Pavel
        TI  - A New Estimator of Search Duration and Its Application to the Marriage Market
        PY  - 2018/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11466
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11466
        AB  - It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of potential mates is more unequal. This paper challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was shown to be a sum of a skewed term, possibly related to search, and a normally distributed residual. I estimate search duration as the expected skewed term. I find that in the American data this term does not positively correlate with male income inequality and female education.
        KW  - marital search
KW  - marriage age
KW  - inequality
KW  - female education
        ER  -