We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching …

Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R …). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the Gale-Shapley stable matching in this environment, agents match to a … consumers. Finally, I address an unanswered question in the matching literature--can multidimensional preferences be aggregated …

This paper analyses a matching model of the marriage market with directed, on-the-job search. Everyone is born …

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 …

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 …

matching by age, and (2) “differential age matching,” a formalization of the age difference at marriage between men and women … supermodularity is not necessary for positive assortative matching, and in fact many common supermodular functions lead to negative …

It is well known that a stable matching in a many-to-one matching market with couples need not exist. We introduce a … new matching algorithm for such markets and show that for a general class of large random markets the algorithm will nd a … stable matching with high probability. In particular we allow the number of couples to grow at a near-linear rate …