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Pierre André Chiappori (Columbia) "Family Economics" - Cemmap

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344 8. Sharing the gains from marriage<br />

in traits. Assuming, for instance, that r > 1 and all men are married<br />

then marriages can be indexed by the husband’s income. As one moves<br />

across all married couples, the utility of the husbands rises at the rate<br />

du(x)<br />

dx = hx (x, ψ (x)) , while the utility of their assigned wives rises at the<br />

rate dv(y) dy<br />

dy dx = hy (x, ψ (x)) ψ 0 (x). In this case, if men are everywhere lo-<br />

cally scarce (that is, ψ 0 (x) < 1), then the utility of the husband rises faster<br />

than the utility of the wife. Conversely, if there are less women than men<br />

(r 1:<br />

v (y) = h (0,y0)+<br />

u (x) = θ +<br />

Z x<br />

0<br />

Z y<br />

y0<br />

hy (φ (t) ,t) dt,<br />

hx (s, ψ (s)) ds,<br />

y0 = Ψ (1 − 1/r) , (8.12)<br />

(and analogous conditions can readily be derived for for r

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