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Family ties : school assignment with siblings

Dur, Umut Mert; Morrill, Thayer; Phan, William - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 89-120

We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last...

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A note on the estimation of job amenities and labor productivity

Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - 2017

matching market based on the observation of equilibrium matches and wages. The estimation procedure simultaneously fits both … the matching patterns and the wage curve. Our estimator is suited for applications to a wide range of assignment problems. …

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Group lending, matching patterns, and the mystery of microcredit : evidence from Thailand

Ahlin, Christian - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 713-759

How has the microcredit movement managed to push financial frontiers? Theory shows that if borrowers vary in … attract safer borrowers and rouse an otherwise dormant credit market. We extend the theory to include correlated risk, and … partners. We use unique data on Thai microcredit borrowing groups to test for homogeneous matching by project riskiness and …

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College choice allocation mechanisms : structural estimates and counterfactuals

Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo de Araújo; Magnac, Thierry - 2014

We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then took exams that select them in or out of the chosen major. The literature analyzing student...

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A Marriage Matching Function with Flexible Spillover and Substitution Patterns

Mourifie, Ismael - 2017

This paper proposes a new and easy-to-estimate marriage matching function (MMF). Unlike existing MMFs, the equilibrium … marriage matching distribution associated with the proposed MMF is not necessarily unique. I show its existence under minimal … substitution patterns than the existing MMFs. I show that the static frictionless transferable utility (TU) matching model with …

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The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models

Doorley, Karina - 2018

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

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The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models

Doorley, Karina - 2018

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910735

Forecasting with a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2014

labor market matching function. In theory, higher mismatch lowers matching efficiency which increases the risk that the … findings can be improved by a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function. For this purpose, we construct so … der Prognosegüte der Matching-Funktion. Theoretisch sinkt die Matchingeffizienz mit höherem Mismatch, wodurch das Risiko …

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Stable marriage, household consumption and unobserved match quality

Browning, Martin James; Cherchye, Laurens; Demuynck, Thomas - 2021

We present a methodology for the structural empirical analysis of household consumption and time use behaviour under marital stability. Our approach is of the revealed preference type and non-parametric, meaning that it does not require a prior functional specification of individual utilities....

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A note on the estimation of job amenities and labor productivity

Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 1, pp. 153-177

matching market based on the observation of equilibrium matches and wages. The estimation procedure simultaneously fits both … the matching patterns and the wage curve. While our estimator is suited for a wide range of assignment problems, we …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807745