Dynamic Marriage Matching: An Empirical Framework
动态婚姻匹配:一个实证框架
The paper proposes a dynamic version of the frictionless Becker-Shapley-Shubik marriage matching model with transferable utility. Its primary objective is to develop a tractable model that rationalizes the marriage distribution of ‘who marries whom’ by age. This behavioral dynamic model rationalizes a new marriage matching function. An empirical methodology that relies on the equilibrium outcomes of the model identies the marital preferences over spouses. This framework also…