Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets

Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew F.

Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets

Economics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 3, pp. 177-179, 2010

6 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2012

Patrick Legros

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES); Northeastern University, department of economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Andrew F. Newman

Boston University - Department of Economics

Date Written: November 11, 2009

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.

Keywords: nontransferable, utility, assignment, models

JEL Classification: C7, D1

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Legros, Patrick and Newman, Andrew F., Co-Ranking Mates: Assortative Matching in Marriage Markets (November 11, 2009). Economics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 3, pp. 177-179, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2028539