The empirical content of marital surplus in matching models

Karina Doorley; Arnaud Dupuy; Simon Weber

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.12.017

The empirical content of marital surplus in matching models

Karina Doorley, Arnaud Dupuy, Simon Weber

Economics

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Abstract

This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We estimate marital surplus using a matching model á la Choo and Siow (2006) on a rich German panel dataset. We show that separation is negatively correlated with the estimated marital surplus, households’ total subjective life satisfaction is negatively correlated with unequal sharing of the surplus whereas the difference in spouses’ subjective satisfaction is negatively correlated with the marital surplus but positively correlated with unequal sharing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-54
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	176
Early online date	6 Jan 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.12.017
Publication status	Published - Mar 2019

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