Beauty is a beast, frog is a prince: Assortative matching with nontransferabilities

Econometrica

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1073-1102

  Legros, Patrick ^a,b   Newman, Andrew F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CEPR ^*  (Belgium)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative matching; Intrahousehold allocation; Nontransferable utility; Principal agent; Risk sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250368488     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2007.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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