Love and other emotional rents play an important role for marriage decisions. A mutually happy marriage often ends a … are matched more frequently with new possible marriage partners. Speed daters change the equilibrium in a marriage … matching model. Speed daters reject quite good matches, leading to a high rate of rejections and failed matches. Speed daters …

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 …

traits. In this paper, we argue that Separate Extreme Value (SEV) models not only generate a matching function with several … relates to various "outcomes" of the post-matching relationship. Children of parents with a high human capital endowment …

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