This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang … choosing the treatment (e.g. marriage or gang membership) may have differed in their criminality from those who did not even in …

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …, and related techniques, in order to estimate these weights. We argue that this estimation technique is inconsistent and …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage … market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra …-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to …

mass and fertility. The theory admits a two-dimensional Malthusian equilibrium characterized by population density and body …