relationship, (ii) the type of partner, and (iii) the endogenously determined probability of matching. If men outnumber women, they … statement holds for women. Using data from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health we estimate the equilibrium matching … result shows that some women would ideally not have sex, but do so out of matching concerns; the reverse is true for men …

the degree to which spouses sort in the marriage market on the basis of parental wealth. We estimate a variety of models … that men and women in the U.S. marry spouses whose parents have wealth similar to that of their own parents; and are very …-quarter of this sorting, and also show that selection into and out marriage by parental wealth does not appreciably bias our …