Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Dam Linh Nguyen, Bernard Salanie
arXiv 17 Apr 2026 · Econometrics
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Since Choo and Siow (2006), a burgeoning literature has analyzed matching markets when utility is perfectly transferable and the joint surplus is separable. We take stock of recent methodological developments in this area. Combining theoretical arguments and simulations, we show that the separable approach is reasonably robust to omitted variables and/or non-separabilities. We conclude with a caveat on data requirements and imbalanced datasets.
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| PABmatchingsurvey | unmatched citation key PABmatchingsurvey | 0.405 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
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