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Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets

TitleCo-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorLegros P, Newman A
Keywordsassortative matching, marriage market, matching, nontransferable utility
Date Published2010
Volume106
Pagination177-179
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.

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JournalEconomics Letters
Citation Key149