experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls … of men to women significantly increased the nonmarital fertility ratio at mid century, a result that proves robust to the … use of alternative sex ratio definitions, post-war measures of fertility, and estimation samples. The magnitude of this …

How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …

students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …

In this paper we investigate the labor market dynamics in a matching model where fluctuations are driven by movements … that the canonical matching model under a very standard calibration is able to generate an important volatility of …

is a necessary and sufficient condition. It simultaneously ensures perfect positive assortative matching, so that single …

. -- Communal responsibility ; anonymous matching ; money demand ; credit ; bills of exchange …

We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along … specifications can be treated as a case of horizontal heterogeneity only. -- Matching ; Horizontal Differentiation ; Marriage Markets …