The rise and fall of divorce: a sociological extension of becker's model of the marriage market

Signe Hald Andersen; Lars Gårn Hansen

doi:10.1080/0022250x.2011.556768

The rise and fall of divorce: a sociological extension of becker's model of the marriage market

Signe Hald Andersen, Lars Gårn Hansen

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Abstract

Despite its popularity, Gary Becker’s model of the marriage market does not fully predict empirical correlations between married women’s labor market participation and aggregate divorce rates. In this article, we show how a simple extension of Becker’s model inspired by sociological theory improves the model’s predictive power. We extend Becker’s model to account for matching agents’ preferences for partner specialization, and as a novelty, we introduce a sociologically inspired coordination mechanism for this trait. We show that these extensions of Becker’s model improve its predictive power in terms of explaining empirical trends in divorce rates.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Mathematical Sociology
Vol/bind	36
Udgave nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	97-124
Antal sider	28
ISSN	0022-250X
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250x.2011.556768
Status	Udgivet - apr. 2012

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