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 …

well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with …

well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with …

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships …. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions …

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

This paper studies a marriage market with two-sided information asymmetry in which the gains from marriage are … 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 …

In this paper, we use a two-period one-to-one matching model with incomplete information to examine the effect of … of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals … whether to stay married or to unilaterally divorce. We show that, for any society, there exist matching environments where the …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

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 … reform that reduced the entitlements of eligible spouses and American Community Survey data on marriage and the …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …