Population and Family Economics (22036)

Instructors  

Lecture

 

Prof . Dr. Michael Kvasnicka

 

Time    

Lecture

 

Tuesday

 

1pm-3pm

G22A-013

General information about this course can be found at the module description and at the LSF, lecture notes at E-Learning. 

Contents:

  • Motives for Marriage
  • Marriage Market and Matching
  • Search Models of Matching
  • Fertility
  • Institution of Marriage
  • Divorce
  • Adult Sex Ratios and Marriage Market outcomes
  • Out-of-wedlock Fertility
References:

Hotz, J.; Klerman, J.; Willis, R. (1997): The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries. In Rosenzweig, M.; Stark, O. (Eds.): Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Vol. 1A, Elsevier: Amsterdam, chapter 7.

Weiss, Y. (1997): The Formation and Dissolution of Families: Why Marry? Who Marries Whom? And What Happens Upon Divorce. In Rosenzweig, M.R.; Stark, O. (Eds.): Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Vol. 1A, Elsevier: Amsterdam et al., chapter 3.

Lecture notes and the papers cited therein.

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