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Co-ranking mates: Assortative matching in marriage markets

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  • Legros, Patrick
  • Newman, Andrew

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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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  • Legros, Patrick & Newman, Andrew, 2010. "Co-ranking mates: Assortative matching in marriage markets," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 106(3), pages 177-179, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:106:y:2010:i:3:p:177-179
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