This paper provides an assessment of the implementation of a canonical two-sided matching model using marriage data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-1998, NLSY). Results indicate that agents tend to be patient in the marriage market, and their attractiveness is more sensitive...

This paper uses a structural approach to examine who matches with whom. A two-sided matching model that allows for marital sorting in response to marriage market flexibility and agents' preferences is utilized. Estimation is based on imbedding the numerical solution of a matching model within a...

We consider the problem of statistical analysis on assortative matching. The random vector of interests consists of the age and the history of the first passage time of each of the newly-formed pairs. Complete data are not often available, however. Observations in each variate of the random...

The objective of this paper is to apply a matching model to identify structural differences contributing to black/white discrepancies in intermarriage behavior. I propose a measurement of type for each individual, and I also propose a general matching algorithm to solve for the acceptable pool...