Congestion is a widespread phenomenon in two-sided markets, but evidence on its costs and benefits is limited. Using … data from an online dating platform, we document a large excess demand, or congestion, for some women. By exploiting … exogenous variation in the number of men and women using the platform, we show that congestion slows down matching time for men …

more pronounced in the case of poorer households and in the case of price. Third, since congestion in households is a prime …-income households seem to have accepted congestion as a way of life and it does not impact their housing demand behaviour, making the … task of addressing congestion even more challenging. Our findings indicate that policies for housing urban India …

relationship between congestion and the optimal second-best policy, on the one hand, and congestion and the long run growth rate …