摘要：This paper determines an empirical indicator for the cost of marrying a spouse with a different level of impatience or rate of time preference, and/or a different degree of aversion to intertemporal variability in consumption. Empirical data from different published sources are used to calibrate the model.
关键词：Ramsey model; rate of time preference; marriage decision; value of impatience; value of risk aversion.
