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

We compare competing college admission matching mechanisms that differ in preference submission timing (pre-exam, post …-exam but pre-score, or post-score) and in matching procedure (Boston (BOS) and serial dictatorship (SD) matching). Pre … or SD matching are ex-post fair and efficient, they are not so ex-ante. Instead, the mechanism with pre-exam submission …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching … model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage …

This paper proposes a new and easy-to-estimate marriage matching function (MMF). Unlike existing MMFs, the equilibrium … marriage matching distribution associated with the proposed MMF is not necessarily unique. I show its existence under minimal … peer effects and the dynamic frictionless TU marriage matching model both generate MMFs that are each a special case of …

We model the interaction between the marriage market and the intrahousehold allocation of resources. We do this within … a setting that accounts for both economic gains to marriage (through public consumption) and unobserved non …