well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with …

School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students' educational outcomes. Yet … priorities: (1) the gains in terms of matching seem limited, because the equilibrium allocation is not very different from a …

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …

We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets where agents have heterogeneous preferences over … potential partners. Our model provides a continuous link between models of matching with and without transfers. Taxes generate …

We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal … of the cross-partial, and the associated welfare loss. While we show analytically that standard fixed effects regressions …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be amodel for the welfare …