Bargaining With Patriarchy: Women’s Subject Choices and Patriarchal Marriage Norms

Marriage Markets and Bargaining Marriage Markets and Bargaining Between Spouses

Marriage Market Equilibrium and Bargaining in Marriage*

This paper examines marriage market equilibrium when allocation is determined by bargaining in marriage rather than binding agreements between prospective spouses. We view sorting in the marriage market and allocation in marriage as a two-stage game in which prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, foresee the allocation that would emerge from bargaining in marriage, but are ...

Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage

Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage Can households make efficient choices? The fact that cohabitation and marriage are partnerships for joint production and consumption imply that their gains are highest when household members cooperate. At the same time, empirical findings suggest that spousal specialization and labor force attachment do influence the threat points of each spouse. As a c...

Marriage Markets and Bargaining Between Spouses

Bargaining one-dimensional social choices

We analyze bargaining over the one-dimension characteristic of a public good among n impatient players when decisions require q favorable votes, q ≥ 2. Stationary subgame perfect equilibrium strategies are characterized for all games with deterministic protocol. We provide a monotonicity condition (satisfied by all singlepeak, strictly quasi-concave and concave utilities) that assures uniquenes...