%0 Report
        %A Doorley, Karina
%A Dupuy, Arnaud
%A Weber, Simon
        %T The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models
        %D 2018
        %8 2018 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 11823
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11823
        %X This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with perfectly transferable utility and heterogeneity in tastes applied to a rich German panel dataset. We then show that these estimates of the marital surplus are negatively correlated with separation and the difference in spouses' subjective satisfaction.
        %K matching market
%K marital surplus
%K subjective well-being
%K separation