Matching with Trade-Offs: Revealed Preferences Over Competing Characteristics
Matching with Trade-Offs: Revealed Preferences Over Competing Characteristics
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权衡匹配：显示出相对于竞争特征的偏好
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2009
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B. Salanié
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Alfred Galichon;B. Salanié
本文研究了具有竞争准则的最优匹配问题的理论和计量经济学。例如，婚姻配对的盈余可能既取决于伴侣的收入和教育程度，也取决于分析师没有观察到的特征。因此，社会最优必须在收入匹配和教育匹配之间进行权衡。给出了一个灵活的规范的盈余函数，我们刻画在温和的假设下的属性的一组可行的匹配和社会最优匹配。然后，我们展示了如何在所观察到的匹配的合作伙伴的类型的协变数据可以用来估计的参数，定义社会偏好的匹配。我们提供了非参数和参数程序，非常容易在应用程序中使用。
We investigate in this paper the theory and econometrics of optimal matchings with competing criteria. The surplus from a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on educations. Given a exible specification of the surplus function, we characterize under mild assumptions the properties of the set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of the partners in observed matches can be used to estimate the parameters that define social preferences over matches. We provide both nonparametric and parametric procedures that are very easy to use in applications.