The Effect of Male Wage Inequality on Female Age at First Marriage
构建了一个女性在婚姻市场中搜寻高工资丈夫的模型，利用1970、1980和1990年美国人口普查数据检验发现，男性工资不平等加剧导致白人女性和高学历黑人女性结婚意愿下降7%至18%，但对低学历黑人女性影响不大。
A model in which women search for husbands characterized by their wages predicts increasing within-group male wage inequality, raises the expected value of continued marital search, and so lowers female marriage propensities. Using 1970, 1980, and 1990 census data, I test this hypothesis within geographically, racially, and educationally defined marriage markets. The estimates suggest rising male wage inequality accounted for 7% to 18% of the decline in the propensity to marry between 1970 and 1990 for white women and more-educated black women. Growing wage inequality appears to have had little effect on the marriage behavior of less-educated black women. © 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology