EITM: Collaborative Proposal: Empirical Analysis of Matching Models

EITM：协作提案：匹配模型的实证分析

• 批准号: 0339850
• 负责人: Daniel Ackerberg
• 金额: $ 9.33万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0339850&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EITM; Collaborative; Proposal; Empirical; Analysis

ABSTRACTPROPOSAL NO: 0339850INSTITUTION: University of California, Los AngelesPI: Ackerberg, DanielNSF PROGRAM: EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEORETICAL MODELSTITLE: COLLABORATIVE PROPOSAL: Empirical Analysis of Matching ModelsRecent research has derived estimable non-parametric transferable utility models of the marriage market. One of the major goals of the empirical analysis of matching models is to deal with endogeneity, measurement, and other problems. Accounting for endogenous matching in the empirical analysis of contracts helps explain the apparent clash between theoretical predictions on contracts and empirical observations.This research will extend the theoretical and empirical literature on matching in three ways. First, it examines ways to empirically characterize bilateral matching markets with heterogeneous participants. Choo and Siow (2003) provide an empirical framework to estimate a transferable utility model of the marriage market without observing the equilibrium transfers. This research will use a unique dataset of about 2,700 marriage and dowry contracts for the city of Florence and the villages in her countryside in the early fifteenth century to empirically test this model. The research will also extend the CS model to allow for dynamic behavior in marriage markets, thus making it possible to consider important decisions made by prospective spouses, such as delaying marriage if expected prospects in the future look better. The second extension is to use traditional hedonic market models to study marriage markets. Recent work has introduced econometric techniques for non-parametric identification of preferences in hedonic markets. This non-parametric identification is important since it ensures that empirical findings come from information in the data rather than from arbitrary functional forms or distributional assumptions. The research will apply these new techniques Italian dataset on marriage and dowry contracts. In addition this research will extend the hedonic methodology by allowing unobserved "traits", characteristics that not only affect an individual's preferences over potential spouses, but also potential spouses' preferences over the individual but not known to the econometrician, in the econometric model.Finally, the PIs will study the consequences of matching in marriage markets on fertility and sex ratios by estimating a dynamic model of fertility. We will use data on the number and gender of children born to the couples in the marriage contracts described above. This approach allows the PIs to explain biased sex ratios without appealing to infanticide or differential care for boys and girls. The results of this research, together with the planned educational activities, are likely to have a significant intellectual and broader impact on economic science.Renaissance Tuscany.

摘要Propopal No：0339850 Institution：加利福尼亚大学，洛杉矶分校：Ackerberg，Danielnsf计划：理论模型的经验含义：协作建议：合作的建议：匹配模型的经验分析具有可估计的估计的非参数可转让的婚姻市场模型。匹配模型实证分析的主要目标之一是处理内生性，测量和其他问题。在合同的实证分析中考虑内源性匹配有助于解释合同的理论预测与经验观察之间的明显冲突。这项研究将扩展有关以三种方式匹配的理论和经验文献。首先，它研究了与异质参与者进行双边匹配市场进行经验表征的方法。 Choo and Siow（2003）提供了一个经验框架，以估算婚姻市场的可转移实用性模型，而无需观察到均衡转移。 这项研究将在15世纪初为佛罗伦萨市和她乡村的村庄使用约2,700个婚姻和嫁妆合同的独特数据集，以经验测试该模型。这项研究还将扩展CS模型，以允许在婚姻市场中进行动态行为，从而可以考虑潜在配偶做出的重要决定，例如延迟婚姻，如果未来的前景看起来更好。第二个扩展是使用传统的享乐市场模式来研究婚姻市场。最近的工作引入了计量经济学技术，用于非参数识别享乐市场的偏好。这种非参数识别非常重要，因为它确保经验发现来自数据中的信息，而不是来自任意功能形式或分布假设。该研究将在婚姻和嫁妆合同上应用这些新技术意大利数据集。 此外，这项研究将通过允许未观察到的“特征”来扩展享乐方法，这些特征不仅影响了个人对潜在配偶的偏好，而且还影响了计量经济学家对个人对个人的偏好，但在计量经济学家中不知道个人的偏好，在计量经济学模型中，PIS会在婚姻市场对婚姻市场对肥料的影响，从而逐步研究了一种动态的估算，而piS的后果将构成良好的育肥率。我们将使用上述婚姻合同中夫妻所生子的人数和性别的数据。这种方法使PI可以解释有偏见的性别比，而无需为男孩和女孩杀害杀婴或差异护理。 这项研究的结果以及计划的教育活动可能对经济科学产生重大的智力和更广泛的影响。