decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment eficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. …

relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … observables, a gap of about 12 percentage points in self-reported health persists for ages 55-59. We estimate the marriage health …, potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears at younger …

We prove a “General Manipulability Theorem” for general one-to-one two-sided matching markets with money. This theorem …

We show that the full version of the so-called "rural hospital theorem" generalizes to many-to-many matching problems …

We observe that three salient solutions to matching, division and house allocation problems are not only (partially …

We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a … positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in …