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 …

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 …

We embed a two-sided matching market with non-transferable utility, a marriage market, into a random search model. We … matchings for the underlying marriage market. We show that this is the case if and only if there is a unique stable matching … decentralized marriage markets. …

In this paper we study marriage formation through a two-sided secretary problem approach. We consider individuals with … characteristics. We show that individuals with higher universal characteristic tend to be more picky in their marriage hunting. This …

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …

introduced by S¨onmez (1999), which contain the well-known marriage problems (Gale and Shapley, 1962) and the housing markets … context of the marriage probelms. Further, I examine the other preceding results proved for the marriage problems (Alcalde …

This paper experimentally studies an essential institutional feature of matching markets: Randomization of allocation …