Marriage Matching and Intercorrelation of Preferences

James Boudreau () and Vicki Knoblauch ()

No 2008-27, Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics

Abstract: Men's and women's preferences are intercorrelated to the extent that men rank highly those women who rank them highly. Intercorrelation plays an important but overlooked role in determining outcomes of matching mechanisms. We study via simulation the effect of intercorrelated preferences on men's and women's aggregate satisfaction with the outcome of the Gale-Shapley matching mechanism. We conclude with an application of our results to the student admission matching problem.

Keywords: Two-Sided Matching; intercorrelated preferences; Gale-Shapley algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 C78 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2008-08
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