We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

, matching in asymmetric marriage markets induces spousal cooperation and specialization. …Can households make efficient choices? The fact that cohabitation and marriage are partnerships for joint production … household choices are made efficiently or not, there does not yet exist an attempt to identify the marriage market and household …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …

stable. In particular, stability means that the marriage matching is individually rational and has no blocking pairs. We show …We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption … patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient household consumption when the marriage is …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by premarital investments, the marriage … market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra …-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to …

proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market …We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in … labor-market return and a marriage-market return because education can affect the intra-marital share of the surplus one can …

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs …