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 …