We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage …

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

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

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

This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in which the gains from marriage are … matching market offers contracts. I show that when expected marital surplus is strictly monotonic in agents' types, no … separating equilibrium that achieves matching efficiency exists. I then study a social planner's problem, finding necessary and …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value (SEV) models not only generate a matching function with several … relates to various "outcomes" of the post-matching relationship. Children of parents with a high human capital endowment …