A large literature uses matching models to analyze markets with two-sided heterogeneity, studying problems such as the … matching of students to schools, residents to hospitals, husbands to wives, and workers to firms. The analysis typically … matching problems with one-sided asymmetric information. The key conceptual problem is to formulate a notion of a blocking pair …

We study estimation and non-parametric identification of preferences in two-sided matching markets using data from a … other that does not use information available in many-to-one matching. We also prove consistency of a method of moments … estimator for a parametric model under a data generating process in which the size of the matching market increases, but data …

Consider Becker's 1973 classic matching model, with unobserved fixed types and stochastic publicly observed output. If … types are complementary, then matching is assortative in the known Bayesian posteriors (the 'reputations'). We discover a … robust failure of Becker's result in the simplest dynamic two type version of this world. Assortative matching is generally …