Partial Identification in Matching Models for the Marriage Market

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gualdani, Cristina; Sinha, Shruti
• 署名单位: University of London; Queen Mary University London; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/722415
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1109-1171
• 关键词: investment

摘要

We study partial identification of the preference parameters in the one-to-one matching model with perfectly transferable utilities. We do so without imposing parametric distributional assumptions on the unobserved heterogeneity and with data on one large market. We provide a tractable characterization of the identified set under various classes of nonparametric distributional assumptions on the unobserved heterogeneity. We reexamine some of the relevant questions in the empirical literature on the marriage market, which have been previously studied under the logit assumption. Our results reveal that many findings in the aforementioned literature are primarily driven by such parametric restrictions.