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“WHAT DOES SHE SEE IN HIM?”: THE EFFECT OF SHARING ON THE CHOICE OF SPOUSE
Author(s) -
Allen Douglas W.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7295.1992.tb01535.x
Subject(s) - spouse , plaintiff , economics , distortion (music) , demographic economics , residual , value (mathematics) , labour economics , microeconomics , social psychology , psychology , mathematics , political science , computer science , statistics , law , amplifier , computer network , bandwidth (computing) , algorithm
All husbands and wives share in the spoils of marriage. Sharing makes each partner a residual claimant and encourages spouses to provide marital inputs. However, because each spouse is only a partial residual claimant, each may be inclined to provide a “suboptimal” level of marital inputs. The choice of spouse influences the level of distortion, and under some circumstances the efficient mating is between individuals of equal value