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Sanitation and marriage markets in India : evidence from the total sanitation campaign
Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; … - 2021
a simple matching model. The model is identified and estimated using data from the Indian Human Development household …
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Matching with Contracts : An Efficient Marriage Market?
Zeng, Qianzi - 2012
matching market offers contracts. I show that when expected marital surplus is strictly monotonic in agents' types, no … separating equilibrium that achieves matching efficiency exists. I then study a social planner's problem, finding necessary and … sufficient conditions for a truthful direct revelation mechanism to achieve matching efficiency. These conditions become more …
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Marital patterns and income inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018
We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching …
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Social insurance and the marriage market
Persson, Petra - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015
(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …
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Social insurance and the marriage market
Persson, Petra - 2015
(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440139
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Marital matching, economies of scale and intrahousehold allocations
Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Surana, Khushboo; … - 2016
We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely...
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Social insurance and the marriage market
Persson, Petra - 2015
(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530523
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Dissimilar occupations and marital stability
Kammen, Ben Van; Adams, Scott J. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
We show that information revealed by the occupation choices of spouses predicts marital dissolution. Using a novel measure of occupational distance constructed from the O*Net Content Model, we find that spouses more closely matched in terms of their occupations' requisite knowledge are more...
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The law of attraction bilateral search and horizontal heterogeneity
Hofmann, Dirk; Qari, Salmai - 2011
We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along … specifications can be treated as a case of horizontal heterogeneity only. -- Matching ; Horizontal Differentiation ; Marriage Markets …
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Household behavior and the marriage market
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J. - 2013
There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household production technology precludes the possibility of using revealed preference data on household...
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