Author(s)

Jean J. Gabszewicz, Filomena Garcia, Joana Pais, Joana Resende

CEF.UP,University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
CORE, Universitécatholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
UECE/ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal.

In this note, we start to claim that established marriages can be heavilydestabilized when the population of existing couples is enriched by thearrival of new candidates to marriage. Afterwards, we discuss briefly howstability concepts can be extended to account for entry and exit phenomenaaffecting the composition of the marriage market.

Matching; Stability; Marriage Model; Divorce Cascades

Gabszewicz, J. , Garcia, F. , Pais, J. and Resende, J. (2012) On Gale and Shapley “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage”. Theoretical Economics Letters, 2, 291-293. doi: 10.4236/tel.2012.23054.