TITLE:
On Gale and Shapley “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage”
AUTHORS:
Jean J. Gabszewicz, Filomena Garcia, Joana Pais, Joana Resende
KEYWORDS:
Matching; Stability; Marriage Model; Divorce Cascades
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.2 No.3,
August
2,
2012
ABSTRACT: 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.