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Short panel data sets constructed by matching individuals across monthly files of the Current Population Survey (CPS) have been used to study a wide range of questions in labor economics. Such panels offer unique advantages. But because the CPS makes no effort to follow movers, these panels exhibit significant attrition, which may lead to bias in longitudinal estimates using matched CPS files. Because the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) uses essentially the same sampling frame and design as the CPS, but makes substantial efforts to follow individuals that move, we use the SIPP to construct 'data-based' rather than 'model-based' corrections for bias from selective attrition. The approach is applied to a couple of standard economic relationships that have been studied with the CPS specifically union wage differentials and the male marriage wage premium. The results for the longitudinal analysis of union wage effects reveal negligible and statistically insignificant evidence of attrition bias. In contrast, the longitudinal analysis of the marriage premium for males finds statistically significant evidence of attrition bias, although the amount of bias does not seem to be serious in an economic sense. We regard the evidence as suggesting that in many applications the advantages of using matched CPS panels to obtain longitudinal estimates are likely to far outweigh the disadvantages from attrition biases, although we should allow for the possibility that attrition bias leads the longitudinal estimates to be understated.

Matching theory. --- Panel analysis.

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This study of matching theory deals with bipartite matching, network flows, and presents fundamental results for the non-bipartite case. It goes on to study elementary bipartite graphs and elementary graphs in general. Further discussed are 2-matchings, general matching problems as linear programs, the Edmonds Matching Algorithm (and other algorithmic approaches), f-factors and vertex packing.

Discrete mathematics --- Matching theory. --- Combinatorial analysis. --- Matching Theory --- Combinatorics --- Algebra --- Mathematical analysis --- Combinatorial analysis --- Marriage theorem

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Written by more than fifty top researchers from economics, OR, and algorithm design, this text comprehensively covers a major inter-disciplinary field and its important applications from the basics to state of the art. Key chapters discuss efficiency, fairness and incentives, and market design and its relation to social choice theory.

Economics --- Commerce --- Operations research. --- Matching theory. --- Algorithms --- Mathematical models. --- Design. --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Combinatorial analysis --- Marriage theorem --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Economics, Mathematical --- Foundations --- Operations research --- Matching theory

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Two-sided matching provides a model of search processes such as those between firms and workers in labor markets or between buyers and sellers in auctions. This book gives a comprehensive account of recent results concerning the game-theoretic analysis of two-sided matching. The focus of the book is on the stability of outcomes, on the incentives that different rules of organization give to agents, and on the constraints that these incentives impose on the ways such markets can be organized. The results for this wide range of related models and matching situations help clarify which conclusions depend on particular modeling assumptions and market conditions, and which are robust over a wide range of conditions. 'This book chronicles one of the outstanding success stories of the theory of games, a story in which the authors have played a major role: the theory and practice of matching markets ... The authors are to be warmly congratulated for this fine piece of work, which is quite unique in the game-theoretic literature.' From the Foreword by Robert Aumann

Game theory --- Matching Theory --- Econometric models --- Matching theory --- Couplage, Théorie du --- Couplage, Théorie du --- Matching theory. --- Operational research. Game theory --- Econometric models. --- Game theory. --- Théorie des jeux --- Modèles économétriques --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.6 --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen. --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Econometrics --- Mathematical models --- Combinatorial analysis --- Marriage theorem --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematics

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Over the past few decades, matching models, which use mathematical frameworks to analyze allocation mechanisms for heterogeneous products and individuals, have attracted renewed attention in both theoretical and applied economics. These models have been used in many contexts, from labor markets to organ donations, but recent work has tended to focus on "nontransferable" cases rather than matching models with transfers. In this important book, Pierre-André Chiappori fills a gap in the literature by presenting a clear and elegant overview of matching with transfers and provides a set of tools that enable the analysis of matching patterns in equilibrium, as well as a series of extensions. He then applies these tools to the field of family economics and shows how analysis of matching patterns and of the incentives thus generated can contribute to our understanding of long-term economic trends, including inequality and the demand for higher education.--

Families --- Marriage --- Matching theory. --- 316.356.2 --- 316.356.2 Gezinssociologie --- Gezinssociologie --- Combinatorial analysis --- Marriage theorem --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Economic aspects. --- Economic conditions --- Matching theory --- Economic aspects --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Private finance --- Family law. Inheritance law