De Rock, Bram; Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas; … - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2014
We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for house-hold consumption … patterns. We start by de
ning a revealed preference characterization of e¢ cient householdconsumption when the marriage is … stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is indi-vidually rational and has no blocking pairs. We …