Students and their parents might be surprised that a diploma from an elite college might not have the life-changing impact they expect.…
What Men and Women Want in a Mate
By identifying the decisions that men and women make while speed dating, we can see where they rank intelligence, attractiveness and ambition.…
Where Have All of the Husbands (and Wives) Gone?
If you are an Elvis minister in Las Vegas, you have a problem. Nevada’s marriage rate is way down and so too is the wedding business. The bigger story though, is about shifting marriage markets.…
Manufacturing, Men, and Marriage Markets
Hit by trade shock from China, U.S. communities that experience factory layoffs and closings will also see an impact on marriage rates.…
Where To Find China’s Missing Women
Upsetting the conventional wisdom, researchers recently found millions of “non-existent” women who could enter Chinese marriage markets.…
Where Marriage Markets and Labor Markets Clash
Displaying the clash between marriage markets and labor markets, single female MBAs display less ambitious more “wifely” behavior when men are present.…
What Happens When a Man Earns Less Than His Mate?
By earning more in labor markets, women affect marriage markets because they violate traditional gender identity norms if they earn more than a mate.…
How Marriage Markets Have Changed
The demographics of marriage markets changed at first when more women attended college and now with online dating sites and mobile apps.…
The Three Top Ways To Find a Mate
The ways to find a mate have shifted from marriage markets originating with family, church and neighborhood to online and bars but utility is constant.…
Creating the Best Valentine’s Match
New marriage markets involve couples with consumption complementarities and online dating that the work of Nobel Economics Laureate Al Roth is facilitating.…