Matching with Transfers: The Economics of Love and Marriage

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Over the past few decades, matching models, which use mathematical frameworks to analyze allocation mechanisms for heterogeneous products and individuals, have attracted renewed attention in both theoretical and applied economics. These models have been used in many contexts, from labor markets to organ donations, but recent work has tended to focu

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"With Matching with Transfers, Chiaporri provides a valuable contribution and summary of the matching and family economics literature."---Scott Alan Carson, Journal of Economic and Social Thought
"This book uses matching theory with transferable utility to analyse the economics of family and marriage patterns. It provides a useful survey of the authors impressive contribution to this literature."---Roberto Bonilla, Journal of Economics

Author Bio

Pierre-Andre Chiappori is the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a Distinguished Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Economics of the Family.