"Fair marriages": An impossibility

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2009
Volume: 105
Issue: 1
Pages: 74-75

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1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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Abstract

For marriage markets [Gale, D. and Shapley, L.S., 1962, College admissions and the stability of marriage, American Mathematical Monthly 69, 9-15.] so-called fair matchings do not always exist. We show that restoring fairness by using monetary transfers is not always possible: there are marriage markets where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:105:y:2009:i:1:p:74-75
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-25