Marriage and the city: Search frictions and sorting of singles

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 206-218

  Gautier, Pieter A ^a   Svarer, Michael ^b   Teulings, Coen N ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composition of cities; Marriage market; Search frictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749112041     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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