economic activity and matching. …

(iii) the endogenously deter- mined probability of matching. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent … Health, we estimate an equilibrium matching model of high school relationships. Variation in gender ratios is used to uncover … one’s ideal relationship. The estimates show that some women would ideally not have sex, but do so out of matching …

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

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply and … estimated matching probabilities that can be derived from the steady-state flow conditions are strongly increasing in male and … female wages. We estimate the expected share of marriage surplus appropriated by each spouse as a function of wages. The …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …