We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along …

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

value of their current match exceeds that of remaining single. If both partners propose, the meeting ends up in a marriage … their spouses. The matching function depends on the single sex-ratios which are endogenous. Our model economy has only two … ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners …

We embed a two-sided matching market with non-transferable utility, a marriage market, into a random search model. We … matchings for the underlying marriage market. We show that this is the case if and only if there is a unique stable matching … decentralized marriage markets. …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra …-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to …