traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value (SEV) models not only generate a matching function with several … share similar health-related behavior and risk attitude. However, we also show that these marital patterns are well … relates to various "outcomes" of the post-matching relationship. Children of parents with a high human capital endowment …

We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along …

(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …

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 …

(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …

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 …