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 …

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 …

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 …

object that drives decisions in most matching models of the labor market. In this paper, we develop a theory-based empirical …