IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/mpopst/v19y2012i3p158-162.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Comment on Schoen's (1981) Harmonic Mean Marriage Model

Author

Listed:
  • ALAN P. MATTHEWS

Abstract

Schoen (1981) proposes a two-sex marriage function based on the harmonic mean of the numbers of men and women at given ages. This is a comment on the argument provided by Schoen, which shows that it does not in fact lead to a marriage function based on the harmonic mean but on the product of the numbers of men and women at given ages. This does not mean that the harmonic mean is not a valid basis for a marriage function, but only that the argument used by Schoen is not a demonstration of its validity.

Suggested Citation

  • Alan P. Matthews, 2012. "A Comment on Schoen's (1981) Harmonic Mean Marriage Model," Mathematical Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 158-162, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mpopst:v:19:y:2012:i:3:p:158-162
    DOI: 10.1080/08898480.2012.708310
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/08898480.2012.708310
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/08898480.2012.708310?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:mpopst:v:19:y:2012:i:3:p:158-162. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/GMPS20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.