On Gale and Shapley ÔCollege admissions and stability of marriageÕ

Jean Gabszewicz (), Filomena Garcia (), Joana Vaz Pais () and RESENDE Joana

No 2008046, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: In this note, we start to claim that established marriages can be heavily destabilized when the population of existing couples is enriched by the arrival of new candidates to marriage. Afterwards, we discuss briefly how stability concepts can be extended to account for entry and exit phenomena affecting the composition of the marriage market.

Keywords: Matching; stability; marriage model; divorce cascades (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-12-01

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