We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of …, there being more smoking men than smoking women for all education levels, so that smoking women and non-smoking men are in … education among couples with identical smoking habits. Among non-smoking wives those with smoking husbands have on average 0 …

An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …

equilibrium matching patterns.  Using US data, we find that the observed marital sorting of smokers and non-smokers by education …We develop a bidimensional matching model under transferable utility, where individuals are characterized by a … continuous trait (e.g., socioeconomic status) and a binary attribute (e.g., smoking status).  The model is "truly …

’s income, education, and height, controlling for his weight (or body size) and her height, along with spouses’ demographic and … socio-economic characteristics. Conversely, heavier husbands are not penalized by matching with poorer or less educated …

attributes, such as age and weight, and that there is positive sorting along age, height, and education. The role of individual … preferences, however, is outplayed by that of opportunities. Along some attributes (such as occupation, height and smoking …

attributes, such as age and weight, and that there is positive sorting along age, height, and education. The role of individual … preferences, however, is outplayed by that of opportunities. Along some attributes (such as occupation, height and smoking …