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1.	Brown, Murray Manser, Marilyn E.
1.	Estimation of the Demand for Marriage Based on a Bargaining Model Discussion Paper No. 419, Economics Research Group, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1977 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: State University of New York Press Keyword(s): Bargaining Model; Household Models; Marital Status; Marriage; Wages The paper begins with a summary of the M-B model of household formation, deriving the conditions under which a marriage will take place, the reasoning underlying the threat point specification, and the effects on the marriage decision of changes in the exogenous variables, especially the effect of changes in the female wage rate. The marriage realization equation and its stochastic specification are given. For both whites and blacks, the wage and income variables are significant determinants of the marriage decision. If the marriage decision is responsive to the same factors that influence the fertility, labor supply, and consumption decisions of married couples, then the total impact of those factors on the latter decisions cannot be assessed without reference to changing marriage patterns.
	Bibliography Citation Brown, Murray and Marilyn E. Manser. "Estimation of the Demand for Marriage Based on a Bargaining Model." Discussion Paper No. 419, Economics Research Group, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1977.

2.	Brown, Murray Manser, Marilyn E.
2.	Neoclassical and Bargaining Approaches to Household Decision-Making with an Application to the Household Labor Supply Decision Presented: Vienna, Austria, Econometric Society, 1977 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Econometric Society Keyword(s): Bargaining Model; Demography; Earnings; Household Demand; Household Models; Husbands, Income; Leisure; Marriage; Slutsky Matrix Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The authors focus on the differences in the household demand functions that derive from the neoclassical model on the one hand, and the bargaining solutions on the other hand. Using data for households which include nonworking wives, the authors obtain estimates of leisure demand functions which are based on our most general bargaining models and test various restrictions on them. The empirical results indicate that the neoclassical restrictions are not appropriate for our data. Specifically, the test for equal effects of male and female incomes on household demands is rejected and symmetry of the Slutsky Matrix is also rejected. The authors offer a bargaining approach as an alternative to the neoclassical complete system of demand equations.
	Bibliography Citation Brown, Murray and Marilyn E. Manser. "Neoclassical and Bargaining Approaches to Household Decision-Making with an Application to the Household Labor Supply Decision." Presented: Vienna, Austria, Econometric Society, 1977.

3.	Manser, Marilyn E. Brown, Murray
3.	Bargaining Analyses of Household Decisions In: Women in the Labor Market. CB Lloyd, et al., eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1979 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Columbia University Press Keyword(s): Bargaining Model; Fertility; Household Demand; Household Models; Leisure; Marriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The authors apply the bargaining models of household decision-making that were proposed and analyzed in their l977 study, focusing on several differences between these and the neoclassical approach. They show that retaining the received theory does not facilitate the determination of the interrelationships between types of marriage decisions and household demands, but that the bargaining theory does. They find that the bargaining models make possible an expanded set of econometric specifications for marriage, labor supply, and other household decisions and offer the promise of uncovering important elements in an economy-principally, the predominant type of marriage arrangement, its changes over time, and its impact on outcomes of the household decision-making process. Formal comments by Nancy M. Gordon and Orley Ashenfelter follow.
	Bibliography Citation Manser, Marilyn E. and Murray Brown. "Bargaining Analyses of Household Decisions" In: Women in the Labor Market. CB Lloyd, et al., eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1979

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