Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships …. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions …

We define the median stable matching for two-sided matching markets with side payments and prove constructively that it …

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage … search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to …'s marriage risk; relative to younger singleton sisters, younger twin sisters have the same effect. These effects intensify in …

between trading firms, the presence of positive assortative matching among firms, and their evolution during the business …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

among partners' skills in match output? We develop a matching model in which risk-averse agents, who differ in skills, match … that under plausible assumptions the risk-sharing benefit of marriage tends to push toward negative sorting on partners …' skills. To obtain the prediction of positive skill sorting--a robust empirical feature of marriage markets--this force needs …