decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on … characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is …

birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

We construct a structural model of household decision-making and matching and estimate the returns to schooling within … marriage. We consider agents with idiosyn- cratic preferences for marriage that may be correlated with education, and we allow … between 1943 and 1972, we show that the preference for assortative matching by education has significantly increased for the …

(some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …