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Joint with: Eugene Choo and Shannon Seitz

The paper integrates marriage matching with the collective model of spousal labor supplies with full risk sharing. It derives observable implications of how marriage market conditions affect spousal labor supplies. In contrast to the sex ratio which is a partial measure, the model motivates a sufficient statistic for marriage market tightness. The framework also clarifies the identifying assumptions necessary to estimate causal effects of marriage market conditions on spousal labor supplies. The empirical section of the paper tests for marriage market effects on spousal labor supplies using data from a panel of US cities and states.

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