TY  - JOUR
A1  - Billari, Francesco
A1  - Prskawetz, Alexia
A1  - Fent, Thomas
A1  - Aparicio Diaz, Belinda
T1  - The "Wedding-Ring": An agent-based marriage model based on social interaction
Y1  - 2007/08/03
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 59
EP  - 82
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.3
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/3/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/3/17-3.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/3/17-3.pdf
N2  - In this paper we develop an agent-based marriage model based on social interaction. We build an population of interacting agents whose chances of marrying depend on the availability of partners, and whose willingness to marry depends on the share of relevant others in their social network who are already married. We then let the typical aggregate age pattern of marriage emerge from the bottom-up. The results of our simulation show that micro-level hypotheses founded on existing theory and evidence on social interaction can reproduce age-at-marriage patterns with both realistic shape and realistic micro-level dynamics.

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