Aloysius Siow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aloysius Siow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aloysius |
| FAMILY NAME | Siow |
| SIGNATURE | SIOW A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality
Previous articleNext article No AccessOccupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings InequalityEric Mak and Aloysius SiowEric Mak and Aloysius SiowPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookxLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Just Accepted Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/732530 PermissionsRequest permissions Views: 16Total views on…
The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects
Across states, there is little correlation between a state’s marriage rate or cohabitation rate and own population. Within states, there is a positive (no) correlation between a state’s marriage (cohabitation) rate and its population growth rate. The Cobb-Douglas marriage matching function (CDMMF), which extends the Choo-Siow MMF to include peer effects, can rationalize these correlations. The model is easy to estimate. The CDMMF is estimated usi…
Assortative Mating in the Marriage Market
Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling
Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
Book Review| September 01 2008 Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Aloysius Siow Aloysius Siow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (3): 566–567. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation …
Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover effects
We use marriage matching functions to study how marital patterns change when population supplies change. Specifically, we use a behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects to rationalize marriage and cohabitation behavior in contemporary Canada. The model can estimate a couple’s systematic gains to marriage and cohabitation relative to remaining single. These gains are invariant to changes in population supplies. Instead, changes…
Who Marries Whom and Why
This paper proposes and estimates a static transferable utility model of the marriage market. The model generates a nonparametric marriage matching function with spillover effects. It rationalizes the standard interpretation of marriage rate regressions and points out its limitations. The model was used to estimate U.S. marital behavior in 1971/72 and 1981/82. The marriage matching function estimates show that the gains to marriage for young adul…
Why Dowries
Competing Premarital Investments
Pre-marital investments by spouses are largely viewed as public goods within the marriage. So individuals may underinvest. But individuals also use their investments to compete for spouses with higher investments. In a large marriage market, the higher equilibrium match quality obtained by increasing pre-marital investment exactly internalizes the external benefit of the investment so the competitive equilibrium is effcient. This model of competi…
Differntial Fecundity, Markets, and Gender Roles
Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. This paper investigates how differential fecundity interacts with marriage, labor, and financial markets to affect gender roles. The main findings of the paper are as follows: (i) Fecund women are relatively scarce. Men will behave differently than women in response to this scarcity. In the most fundamental way, demand and supply conditions in the marriage market affect gender roles. …
Who Marries Whom and Why
This paper proposes and estimates a static transferable utility model of the marriage market. The model generates a nonparametric marriage matching function with spillover effects. It rationalizes the standard interpretation of marriage rate regressions and points out its limitations. The model was used to estimate U.S. marital behavior in 1971/72 and 1981/82. The marriage matching function estimates show that the gains to marriage for young adul…
Why Dowries
Differntial Fecundity, Markets, and Gender Roles
Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. This paper investigates how differential fecundity interacts with marriage, labor, and financial markets to affect gender roles. The main findings of the paper are as follows: (i) Fecund women are relatively scarce. Men will behave differently than women in response to this scarcity. In the most fundamental way, demand and supply conditions in the marriage market affect gender roles. …
Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover effects
We use marriage matching functions to study how marital patterns change when population supplies change. Specifically, we use a behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects to rationalize marriage and cohabitation behavior in contemporary Canada. The model can estimate a couple’s systematic gains to marriage and cohabitation relative to remaining single. These gains are invariant to changes in population supplies. Instead, changes…
Competing Premarital Investments
Pre-marital investments by spouses are largely viewed as public goods within the marriage. So individuals may underinvest. But individuals also use their investments to compete for spouses with higher investments. In a large marriage market, the higher equilibrium match quality obtained by increasing pre-marital investment exactly internalizes the external benefit of the investment so the competitive equilibrium is effcient. This model of competi…
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality
Previous articleNext article No AccessOccupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings InequalityEric Mak and Aloysius SiowEric Mak and Aloysius SiowPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookxLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Just Accepted Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/732530 PermissionsRequest permissions Views: 16Total views on…
Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
Book Review| September 01 2008 Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Aloysius Siow Aloysius Siow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (3): 566–567. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation …
Differntial Fecundity, Markets, and Gender Roles
Women are fecund for a shorter period of their lives than men. This paper investigates how differential fecundity interacts with marriage, labor, and financial markets to affect gender roles. The main findings of the paper are as follows: (i) Fecund women are relatively scarce. Men will behave differently than women in response to this scarcity. In the most fundamental way, demand and supply conditions in the marriage market affect gender roles. …
Competing Premarital Investments
Pre-marital investments by spouses are largely viewed as public goods within the marriage. So individuals may underinvest. But individuals also use their investments to compete for spouses with higher investments. In a large marriage market, the higher equilibrium match quality obtained by increasing pre-marital investment exactly internalizes the external benefit of the investment so the competitive equilibrium is effcient. This model of competi…
Why Dowries
Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover effects
We use marriage matching functions to study how marital patterns change when population supplies change. Specifically, we use a behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects to rationalize marriage and cohabitation behavior in contemporary Canada. The model can estimate a couple’s systematic gains to marriage and cohabitation relative to remaining single. These gains are invariant to changes in population supplies. Instead, changes…
Who Marries Whom and Why
This paper proposes and estimates a static transferable utility model of the marriage market. The model generates a nonparametric marriage matching function with spillover effects. It rationalizes the standard interpretation of marriage rate regressions and points out its limitations. The model was used to estimate U.S. marital behavior in 1971/72 and 1981/82. The marriage matching function estimates show that the gains to marriage for young adul…
Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
Book Review| September 01 2008 Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics By Pedro N. Teixeira. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv; 209 pp. £35.00. Aloysius Siow Aloysius Siow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (3): 566–567. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation …
Compensating for unequal parental investments in schooling
Assortative Mating in the Marriage Market
The Cobb-Douglas Marriage Matching Function: Marriage Matching with Peer and Scale Effects
Across states, there is little correlation between a state’s marriage rate or cohabitation rate and own population. Within states, there is a positive (no) correlation between a state’s marriage (cohabitation) rate and its population growth rate. The Cobb-Douglas marriage matching function (CDMMF), which extends the Choo-Siow MMF to include peer effects, can rationalize these correlations. The model is easy to estimate. The CDMMF is estimated usi…
Occupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings Inequality
Previous articleNext article No AccessOccupational Choice, Matching, and Earnings InequalityEric Mak and Aloysius SiowEric Mak and Aloysius SiowPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookxLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Just Accepted Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/732530 PermissionsRequest permissions Views: 16Total views on…
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Marriage market (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Demography (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)