This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony …-based measures of assortative matching increase similarly. Moreover, we find the largest effects among those groups who might be more …

Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model …

% higher first stage effort than random matching. In line with the theory the latter result is more pronounced when the task … performance. Our results are consistent with a simple investment-cum-matching model: pairing the worst performing individuals with … the best yields 20% lower first stage effort than random matching. Pairing the best with the best, however, yields 5 …

their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: Centralized assignment by firm leaders and …

production determined by a matching process between workers and jobs. Macroeconomic equilibrium (national savings equal to …