multiple properties relevant for a workable measure of comparison. -- Stable Marriage Problem ; Matching ; Blocking Pair …In matching markets the number of blocking pairs is often used as a criterion to compare matchings. We argue that this … changes, nor will it capture the satisfaction of the players with the matching. As an alternative, we set up two principles …

education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter’s future marriage offers. Parents’ choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of … receiving high-quality marriage offers in the future and how this varies with age and education. We identify this model by …