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A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach to Decision Making in Arranged Marriages
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2011
demonstrate that our marrying individual uses a reservation utility to determine which marriage proposal to accept. Third, we … profit maximization implies that all matchmaking firms offer marriage proposals whose utility equals the reservation utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121473
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A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach to Decision Making in Arranged Marriages
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2011
demonstrate that our marrying individual uses a reservation utility to determine which marriage proposal to accept. Third, we … profit maximization implies that all matchmaking firms offer marriage proposals whose utility equals the reservation utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123426
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On the likelihood of finding the right partner in an arranged marriage
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: The journal of socio-economics 30 (2001) 3, pp. 273-280
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001601757
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The optimal reservation utility in models of decision making in arranged marriages
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 16/18, pp. 1695-1698
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932283
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On the Likelihood of Finding the Right Partner in an Arranged Marriage
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2001
Even though arranged marriages have been around for quite some time, economists have paid little attention to the nature of decision making in such marriages. Therefore, we know very little about the efficacy of traditional methods of decision making in arranged marriages. Given this state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124977
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The Optimal Reservation Utility in Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2009
The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal’s (2003a) recent analysis of decision … making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the … decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent’s reservation utility as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045893
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The Optimal Reservation Utility in Models of Decision Making in Arranged Marriages
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2005
The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal's (2003a) recent analysis of decision … making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the … decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent's reservation utility as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028548
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On the Likelihood of Finding the Right Partner in an Arranged Marriage
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2001
Even though arranged marriages have been around for quite some time, economists have paid little attention to the nature of decision making in such marriages. Therefore, we know very little about the efficacy of traditional methods of decision making in arranged marriages. Given this state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014127609
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Optimal resource management in the presence of a deleterious alien species
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007
alien animal or plant species. To outline an appropriate policy response, we first use renewal theory to construct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373835
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A theoretical perspective on managed rangelands and irreversible states
Rohlin, Shawn M.; Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 14 (2005) 4, pp. 487-494
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003195765