Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets
| Title | Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Legros, P, Newman A | |
| Keywords | assortative matching, marriage market, matching, nontransferable utility |
| Date Published | 2010 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Pagination | 177-179 |
| Abstract | We show that co-ranking is the necessary and sufficient condition for assortative matching with strictly nontransferable utility. This condition is equivalent to the GID condition in Legros and Newman (2007) and is a weakening of the existing conditions for equilibrium uniqueness. |
| Preview | Copy of the pdf of the published article available upon request. |
| Journal | Economics Letters |
| Citation Key | 149 |