Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230435 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2019/2
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even conditional on having the same type, even if all other factors, such as search costs or the distribution of partner types, are same across genders. If same-sex marriage is legalized and there is a positive mass of agents who find marriage with both sexes acceptable, then only symmetric equilibria survive in symmetric environments.
Subjects: 
marriage markets
matching
gender equality
same-sex marriage
JEL: 
C78
D1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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