Co-ranking mates: Assortative matching in marriage markets
January 1, 2010·
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Patrick Legros
Andrew Newman
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 existing conditions for equilibrium uniqueness.
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Publication
Economics Letters, 106(3), 177–179,
Authors
Professor of Economics (Emeritus)
Patrick Legros is Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and is affiliated with the research center ECARES within the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.