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We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative … matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples …
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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 …
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In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate...
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were married. Cohabitees lose less even after matching on observable characteristics including age and children. This … they are more likely to live with other adults, particularly their family, following separation, even after matching on age …
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This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony …-based measures of assortative matching increase similarly. Moreover, we find the largest effects among those groups who might be more …
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When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even conditional on having the same type, even if all other factors, such as search costs or the distribution of partner types, are same across genders. If same-sex marriage is...
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