TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gautier, Pieter A.
AU  - Svarer, Michael
AU  - Teulings, Coen
        TI  - Marriage and the City
        PY  - 2005/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1491
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1491
        AB  - Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is that attractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Those predictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset.
        KW  - city
KW  - marriage
KW  - search
KW  - mobility
        ER  -