good economy, can also be used to provide a diagrammatical exposition of matching mechanisms and their effects on public … good supply and welfare. In particular, we describe, on the one hand, for which income distributions interior matching … equilibria result and, on the other hand, for which income distributions the agents voluntarily participate in a matching …

unique outcome, the worker-optimal matching. …

It is known that in two-sided many-to-many matching markets, pair-wise stability is not logically related with the … (weak) core, unlike in many-to-one matching markets (Blair, 1988). In this paper, we seek a theoretical foundation for …-partner matching problem that includes two-sided matching problems as special cases. Under the same preference restriction, we also …

We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage … market outcomes for both men and women. To decompose the overall policy impact on the marriage market equilibrium, we develop …

(1962) yields outcomes for a generalised marriage problem, which are necessarily stable. We also show that any outcome of …

vanishes if larger exchanges are admitted. -- Kidney ; Matching ; Protective Behavior …