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 …

matching by age, and (2) “differential age matching,” a formalization of the age difference at marriage between men and women …This paper considers a marriage market with two-sided search and transferable utility in which the match payoff depends … on age. It characterizes a set of payoff functions consistent with two salient marriage age patterns, (1) assortative …

We analyze models where agents search for partners to form relationships (employment, marriage, etc.), and may continue …

economic activity and matching …

In this paper, we study marriage formation through a two-sided secretary problem approach. We consider individuals with … characteristics. We show that individuals with a higher universal characteristic tend to be more picky in their marriage hunting. This …