preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple’s common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of … run, if matching is entirely random, either everybody obeys the same rule, or nobody obeys any. If matching is restricted …

We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the … matching with bargaining framework of Crawford and Rochford (1986). We run simulations to find the effects of alimony rate …

We describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage market …

inspects preference characteristics able to generate monogamous choices and assortative matching and mating. Assortative mating …

This paper analyses a matching model of the marriage market with directed, on-the-job search. Everyone is born …

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching …

In this paper, we use a two-period one-to-one matching model with incomplete information to examine the effect of … whether to stay married or to unilaterally divorce. We show that, for any society, there exist matching environments where the … probability of the marital dissolution does not reduce divorce costs under gender-optimal matching rules. In such environments, an …

We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply and … estimated matching probabilities that can be derived from the steady-state flow conditions are strongly increasing in male and …

Stable matchings may fail to exist in the roommate matching problem, both when utility is transferable and when it is … not. We show that when utility is transferable, the existence of a stable matching is restored when there is an even … individuals of any given type is large enough there always exist "quasi-stable" matchings: a stable matching can be restored with …